IN MINORITY RULE: Adventures in the Culture War, British Left commentator Ash Sarkar seeks to expose how “minority elites” use the culture wars to stoke fear and panic in the media landscape. Over the course of her analysis, Sarkar mounts an extended criticism of contemporary identity politics on the Left. She contends that, through the kind of politics of victimhood and grievance it adopted, “the left unwittingly forged the political weapons being used against it by our political opponents”.
[. . .]
On May 2, 2023, the Platypus Affiliated Society hosted a panel on the American Constitution and the Left at New York University. The panelists were Erin Hagood (Platypus), Daniel Lazare (writer at the Weekly Worker, author of The Frozen Republic: How the Constitution is Paralysing Democracy), and Caleb Maupin (Center for Political Innovation). The panel was moderated by Platypus member Oliver Chasan. An edited transcript follows.
[. . .]
On January 13 and 22, 2023, Platypus Affiliated Society member Daniel Rudin interviewed Joel Rocamora, formerly a candidate member of the Communist Party of the Philippines.
[. . .]
On June 11, 2025, Platypus Affiliated Society member Ethan Cole interviewed Neel, the National Mobilizing Secretary and the South Carolina Party Chair of the Labor Party, which was founded in the United States in 2024.
[. . .]
Zoomers are not having sex. Sexual activity among young people is lower than ever. The expansion of online hook-up and dating apps has not changed this trend. While around 50% of 18- to 29-year-olds reported using dating apps in 2020, Generation Z seems poised to continue the decline of sexual activity since the mid-20th century. Really, this extends to all social activity: we drink less, go out less, transgress less, and socialize less than our parents and grandparents.
[. . .]
