Month: August 2020

The Neoliberal Virus

Ben August 16, 2020

To date, and to the extent that alleged political leaders have even tried to come...

The Political Uses of Pandemic

Ben August 16, 2020

Crisis has long had political uses for ruling groups. As I wrote in a piece...

Ben Debney

Ben Debney is author of The Oldest Trick in the Book: Panic-Driven Scapegoating in History and Recurring Patterns of Persecution (Palgrave Macmillan 2020). Current research investigates the role of Othering and blame-shifting in the origins and consequences of fossil ideology, the group of ideological belief systems that have sought to rationalise and legitimate the historical conditions behind the climate emergency. https://linktr.ee/bendebney