Dispatches From the Culture Wars - August 14, 2018
- What Sunday’s Unite the Right 2 Rally Tells Us About the State of the Alt-Right in America - Jane Coaston (Vox)
- The Twilight of Free Speech Liberalism - Marin Cogan (The New Republic)
- Meet the Far-Right Conspiracy Idiots Who Stormed Bookmarks - Ben Cowles (Morning Star)
- Trump’s Allies Struggle to Stop QAnon’s Spread - Will Sommer (The Daily Beast)
- White Supremacy Has Always Been Mainstream - Stephen Kantrowitz (Boston Review)
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What Sunday’s Unite the Right 2 Rally Tells Us About the State of the Alt-Right in America
By Jane Coaston
August 12, 2018
Vox
Attendance might be low, but we can learn a lot from the rally, counterprotests, and the broader response.
The Twilight of Free Speech Liberalism
July 16, 2018
The New Republic
The ACLU has transformed itself from a nonpartisan protector of civil liberties into one of Donald Trump’s most bitter political foes.
Meet the Far-Right Conspiracy Idiots Who Stormed Bookmarks
By Ben Cowles
Morning Star
The halfwits who went berserk in the central London socialist bookshop Bookmarks on Saturday afternoon are supporters of a oddball far-right group called Make Britain Great Again.
Trump’s Allies Struggle to Stop QAnon’s Spread
By Will Sommer
August 7, 2018
The Daily Beast
Fearing the left will turn the conspiracy theory against them, the president’s cheerleaders try to talk sense into the grassroots. It’s not working.