Lee Siegel
American cultural and literary critic and essayist; author of the New Statesman essay reading Mailer's 'Left conservative' label as a key to present-day politics.
Lee Siegel is an American cultural and literary critic and essayist. His December 2024 essay We Must All Be Left Conservatives Now takes Mailer’s self-description as a “Left conservative” in The Armies of the Night as a lens on Christopher Lasch, Steve Bannon, and Donald Trump, arguing that the term captures the syncretic character of present-day American politics.
Related pages
- We Must All Be Left Conservatives Now | The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, The Novel as History | About this project