Archive - The People's Line

Why does Curtis Yarvin think he is Sephiroth?

Reaction and the politics of talking like a supervillain.

20 hrs ago •

Pritzker and resistance theater

Do you want epic press conferences, or do you want to win?

Oct 5 •

Community language and the semantics of offense

Linguists and online liberals have sharply different ideas about how language works.

Oct 3 •

Is Noah Smith the wrongest pundit online?

His ode to Argentine capitalism just a few months ago is pretty embarrassing today!

Oct 1 •

September 2025

Local socialism can't defeat global capitalism

If socialists want to win, they'll have to go international.

Sep 29 •

The "left terrorism hits 30-year high" headlines are a lie

A new study has the media inaccurately reporting on a statistical fluctuation in left-wing terrorism.

Sep 29 •

NEW: Reading recommendations

By popular demand...

Sep 28 •

The demographics of progressives and socialists

Some rare insights from an unusual CNN poll

Sep 27 •

Sunstein is right: there are indeed racist liberals

Another look at the inbox.

Sep 25 •

Is Trump going to false-flag the left?

If the administration can't find a pretext to crack down on us, they may invent one.

Sep 24 •

Class analysis and "authoritarianism"

Two ways of explaining Trump's recent H1-B visa fee yield vastly different insights.

Sep 22 •

How do material forces shape the discourse?

Part IV of a multipart series on a Marxist theory of contemporary discourse.

Sep 21 •

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