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The Dubious History of America’s Most Famous Monarchist

Jamelle Bouie New York Times
Yarvin serves exactly one purpose, and that is to spread the idea that this country would be better served by a dictatorship of capital, spearheaded by tech elites and their allies in government.

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Whose Future Is It Anyway?

Jess Maginity Los Angeles Review of Books
This book discusses the effort by the alt-right and fascist movements to claim the genres science fiction and speculative literature as their own.

Hopping Across the Line

John Washington The New York Review
In Soldiers and Kings, Jason De León uses the anthropological method of “deep hanging out” to offer a complicated portrait of migrant smugglers.

Either Be a Determined Opposition or Be a Loser

Jamelle Bouie New York Times
The Democratic Party lacks the energy of a determined opposition — it is adrift, listless in the wake of defeat, ready to concede that Trump is some kind of avatar for the national spirit. The choice: either be a determined opposition or be a loser.

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John Lewis: A Life

Steve Nathans-Kelly New York Journal of Books
"More than any Lewis biography to date," writes reviewer Nathans-Kelly, this book "captures that life’s complex, magnificent, and underappreciated second act.”
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