What is The Agonist?

Re-launching my Substack under a new name.

This Substack has been a bit dormant. That’s about to change. With that in mind, I’m re-launching and re-naming this newsletter to better reflect what I hope to share with you in my text and video posts.

Agonism is a somewhat obscure philosophy of democratic conflict and competition, drawing primarily on the theories of the Belgian philosopher Chantal M…