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Graeme Wood on ISIS
NPR’s Rachel Martin speaks with Graeme Wood, who has interviewed members of ISIS (what balls!) for his book The Way of the Strangers: Encounters with the Islamic State: MARTIN: You write in the book that part of the West’s misunderstanding … Continue reading
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BBC on Alt-Right in Europe
Here is a 12-minute BBC piece on Alt-Right Identitarians in Austria and France. The interviewees do a great job articulating their positions. The snarky BBC reporter, on the other hand, takes every kneejerk, emotion-based, default, liberal position imaginable (e.g., “Islamophobia is … Continue reading
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Politico: Ivanka & Jared has D.C.’s Jews Buzzing
From a Politico article titled “Shul ties: Ivanka and Jared’s big move has D.C.’s Jews buzzing”: At the intimate, light-brick synagogue in Georgetown, members don’t fuss over their famous-for-Washington congregants. Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew prays at Kesher Israel just like … Continue reading
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Brazile on ‘Weaponized’ Emails of Misinformation
Disgrace former CNN pundit (and current DNC head!) Donna Brazile appeared on ABC’s This Week with teary-eyed Martha Radditz. (Can it get more incestuously ‘fake newsy’ than this?). [Brazile] briefly dismissed the controversy about emails showing her sending a town … Continue reading
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NPR: “Transgender Americans Race To Finish Paperwork Before Trump Administration”
“Transgender Americans Race To Finish Paperwork Before Trump Administration” is the NPR story’s headline. Many transgender people in the U.S. are rushing to change their designated gender on government documents before President-elect Donald Trump takes office. They worry the next … Continue reading
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Strauss & Identitarianism
Charles Lyons has a brief piece on “Strauss and Identitarianism”: Leo Strauss is an important 20th century thinker on the American Right, particularly the neoconservative movement. He had a very strong Jewish identity, and viewed his philosophy as a means … Continue reading
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The Kinks – I’m in Disgrace (1975)
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Fake News in Sweden
The ‘fake news’ epidemic is even hitting Sweden! Researchers at the Stockholm School of Economics and market researcher company NEPA said the country is becoming increasingly divided with regards to where people get their news. Half of those surveyed get … Continue reading
Trying to “Hack” an Election in 1984
From The Federalist: According to Soviet documents unearthed in the early 1990’s, [Ted] Kennedy literally asked the Soviets, avowed enemies of the U.S., to intervene on behalf of the Democratic party in the 1984 elections. Kennedy’s communist communique was so secret that it was … Continue reading