Robert Samuels is lecturer of writing at University of California, Santa Barbara.

• 1) Introduction 2) “The Play’s the Thing”: Metafiction, Irony, Centrist Narcissism, and Virtue Signaling 3) Thrift, Thrift: Ideology, Capitalism, and Neoliberal Nihilism 4) “The Commandment All Alone Shall Live”: Conservative Ideology, Authoritarianism, and the Rewriting of History 5) “These Words, like Daggers, enter in Mine Ears”: Hysteria, Symbolic Violence, and the Left 6) Modern Democratic Liberalism after Hamlet: Psychoanalysis and the Universal Subject

Robert Samuels is lecturer of writing at University of California, Santa Barbara.

• 1) Introduction 2) “The Play’s the Thing”: Metafiction, Irony, Centrist Narcissism, and Virtue Signaling 3) Thrift, Thrift: Ideology, Capitalism, and Neoliberal Nihilism 4) “The Commandment All Alone Shall Live”: Conservative Ideology, Authoritarianism, and the Rewriting of History 5) “These Words, like Daggers, enter in Mine Ears”: Hysteria, Symbolic Violence, and the Left 6) Modern Democratic Liberalism after Hamlet: Psychoanalysis and the Universal Subject

Robert Samuels is lecturer of writing at University of California, Santa Barbara.

• 1) Introduction 2) “The Play’s the Thing”: Metafiction, Irony, Centrist Narcissism, and Virtue Signaling 3) Thrift, Thrift: Ideology, Capitalism, and Neoliberal Nihilism 4) “The Commandment All Alone Shall Live”: Conservative Ideology, Authoritarianism, and the Rewriting of History 5) “These Words, like Daggers, enter in Mine Ears”: Hysteria, Symbolic Violence, and the Left 6) Modern Democratic Liberalism after Hamlet: Psychoanalysis and the Universal Subject