"Everything has been sorted and segregated so that people of different political parties have no opportunities to engage one another."

"Who can speak is a fundamental political question – both in the meaning of who is allowed to speak, and who is seen as a speaking being."

Jessica Whyte’s essay explores how neoliberalism transformed the market from a tool of exchange into the dominant force shaping political and social life. Challenging the idea that markets are “natural,” she argues that modern societies increasingly subordinate democracy, freedom, and collective decision-making to competitive economic systems.

Fascism is often dismissed as a political phenomenon confined to twentieth-century Europe, but this assumption obscures its enduring ideological structure. Like democracy, fascism abstracts from local history and reappears under diverse conditions, organized around exclusionary nationalism, status grievance, and authoritarian leadership. Treating fascism as merely historical is not only mistaken, it weakens our capacity to recognize and resist its contemporary forms.