By Chris Roberts There is a scene in The Blues Brothers that, in the context of the Trump era, has taken on an eerie and uncomfortable sheen. The titular characters are classic “chaotic good”—ex-cons with hearts of gold, outlaws “on… Continue Reading
Jeremy Scahill at The Intercepted, Nov. 14, 2018 DONALD TRUMP IS waging a political counterinsurgency. This week on Intercepted: We lay out and discuss the multidecade history of paramilitarized politics in the U.S., how the tactics of the war on… Continue Reading
“’Cultural Marxism’ is not only a sad diversion from framing legitimate grievances but also a dangerous lure in an increasingly unhinged moment.” Sam Moyn has this important essay on the toxic history of the term “Cultural Marxism” in the New York… Continue Reading
Andreas Huyssen, “Breitbart, Bannon, Trump, and the Frankfurt School,” Public Seminar, Sept. 28, 2017 Martin Jay, Dialectic of Counter-Enlightenment: The Frankfurt School as Scapegoat of the Lunatic Fringe, CISA Blog, Dec. 22, 2011. Josh Harkinson, “Meet the White Nationalist Trying To Ride… Continue Reading
By Julian Huertas As Zeynep Gambetti mentioned in her intervention (35:35), one would hardly be motivated to read The Real Right Returns, Why We Fight or A Fair Hearing, if they were not the basic materials for the November 14th… Continue Reading
By Sami Cleland I. Not Just Semantics Our discussion began with an imperative preliminary question: why do we use the term “alt-right” to describe a group of people whose ideology is not merely “alt,” but is explicitly racist, sexist, misogynistic,… Continue Reading
By Emily Hoffman Confronted with texts such as these—“racist, bigoted, anti-semitic, misogynist, xenophobic,” as Bernard Harcourt cataloged, and, I would add, crucially, increasingly popular—the critical mind reaches immediately to a handful of interpretive tactics: to unearth the logic that structures… Continue Reading
By Jeff Stein This week’s readings reveal an ascendant alt-right “metapolitical” strategy; in the words of alt-right leader Daniel Friberg, the movement’s project is to “disseminat[e] and anchor[] a particular set of cultural ideas, attitudes, and values in a society,”… Continue Reading
By Teddy Corcoran In the wake of Praxis 4/13, arguably our most spirited discussion yet, I found myself fixated with two concepts insofar as they are related to the alt-right: 1) the role of logic 2) the role of power.… Continue Reading
By Diana Moreno As I write this seminar blog, Donald Trump rules as the president of the country I live in. I quickly double check my reality by opening the New York Times. Headlines read “Trump fabrics a migrant crisis… Continue Reading