Dispatches From the Culture Wars - May 26, 2020
- The Cult
- Intellectuals Going Covid
- Being the Victim
- Rules Are For Fools
- A Little Something Called Hydroxychloroquine
- A New Sheriff is Coming
- How Conspiracy Theories Work
- Are We In This Together?
- #MeToo and Queer Experience
By David Atkins
May 23, 2020
Washington Monthly
Core Republican voters have begun to reconstitute themselves as a conspiracy theory cult devoted to beliefs that were once relegated to the farthest fringe–fictions that cannot help but end in civil conflict and violence.
By Matthew Sitman
May 21, 2020
The New Republic
Why the pandemic is driving conservative intellectuals mad.
By Ryan Cooper
May 13, 2020
The Week
The conservative victimhood complex has made America impossible to govern.
By Derek Robertson
May 16, 2020
Politico
What liberals don’t get about Trump supporters and pop culture.
A Little Something Called Hydroxychloroquine
By Nick Robins-Early
May 13, 2020
HuffPost
How a “philosopher” who tweets anti-Semitism, two bitcoin bros and right-wing media helped put an idea in the president’s head.
By Emma Powys Maurice
April 30, 2020
Pink News
A woman fired by an Ohio sheriff ‘because she’s a lesbian’ just knocked her old boss out of the race for his own office.
By Erol Saglam
May 19, 2020
OpenDemocracy
Like viruses, conspiracy theories are socially contagious and hard to stop once set in motion. We must understand what they do to us.
By Danny Westneat
May 20, 2020
Seattle Times
The pandemic is widening society’s preexisting class divides.
Peter Drucker
May 3, 2020
Salvage
The spotlight on male-on-male abuse relies on an analytical grid that has been borrowed, generally unchanged and unexamined, from the analysis of heterosexual abuse.