Blake Smith

Blake Smith Attention Counteracting Ambition

Today’s governing elites possess a narcissistic desire for popularity, not a Caesarian thirst for power.

Blake Smith The Narcissism of Hyper-Politicization

We are both intensely “politicized” and incapable of the behavior that was once considered the stuff of real politics.

Blake Smith An Unlikely Intellectual Convergence

Christopher Lasch and Michel Foucault told a similar story about the modern obsession with identity—and its dangers.