Year: 2021

The personal is political. The private isn’t

Ben August 5, 2021

As Carol Hanisch pointed out in her eponymous 1970 essay, the personal is political. Many...

Wokewashing the money cult: ideological coping mechanisms in the end-times

Ben April 1, 2021

End of days-type periods are hardly unknown throughout history; the fact that empires rise and...

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