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The New McCarthyism Was Started by Liberals

Jeet Heer The Nation
Trumpism is only Bidenism carried to its logical conclusion. Joe Biden was in many ways heir to the militaristic liberalism of Wilson and Truman—especially visible in his efforts to revive the military Keynesianism of the Cold War.

Everyone (Sort of) Loves a Disrupter

John Feffer TomDispatch
Off-the-record, some liberals support Trump on a case-by-case basis. In normal times, finding overlapping interests with your political adversaries makes sense. But let’s be clear: Trump will not be playing by the rules of normal politics.

Exit Right

Gabriel Winant Dissent Magazine
Trump has remade Americans, and to defeat Trumpism requires nothing less than the left doing the same.

Mirror, Mirror, Build the Wall

David Duhalde Democratic Socialists of America
Naomi Klein’s latest book explores how her “Doppelganger”, Naomi Wolf, embraced far-right conspiracies. Their divergent paths contain lessons for socialist organizing today.

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The Illiberalism at America’s Core

Julian E. Zelizer The New Republic
A new history argues that illiberalism is not a backlash but a central feature from the founding to today.

The Great Rupture in American Jewish Life

Peter Beinart The New York Times
For the last decade or so, an ideological tremor has been unsettling American Jewish life. Since Oct. 7, it has become an earthquake. It concerns the relationship between liberalism and Zionism....

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Why Some Are More Equal Than Others

Richard V Reeves Literary Review
This book, writes reviewer Reeves, "ought to be read by anyone interested in equality, and also anyone interested in people, history, God, politics, religion, nationalism, war or love."

First They Came for Harvard

Rick Perlstein The American Prospect
The right’s long and all-too-unanswered war on liberal institutions claims a big one.
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