Toward Techno-Carlism?
A Response to Mary Harrington, "The King and the Swarm"
In the last edition of First Things, Mary Harrington published literary culture’s summer blockbuster, “The King and the Swarm.” I won’t do it justice by trying to summarize it; think of it as a rich tapestry drawing together all the threads that preoccupy us.
An earlier form of her essay was first delivered at a conference hosted by the Institute for Phi…
