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Diagnosing Trump-like derangement syndrome

Posted in Climate change, Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on July 1, 2020 | Leave a Comment »

The Covid-19 situation in the United States, which has become the epicenter of new infections because of its flawed and chaotic response to the pandemic, is seen by some around the world as an emergency case of its own, requiring some sort of defensive response by countries that could become similarly infected. The Week‘s Ryan […]

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The “what does it have to do with me?” defense

Posted in Cultural politics, Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on June 11, 2020 | Leave a Comment »

A casual comment on a minor article in a provincial newspaper in a faraway country (Ukraine) got me going on a response to what is, essentially, the white world’s default position on all things racial. (Social media comments, as a rule, aren’t indicative of anything, but this one is so symptomatic it’s worth examining.) The […]

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On cultural civil conflict

Posted in Cultural politics, Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on October 5, 2017 | 8 Comments »

I think it’s fair to say that the United States is in a state of cultural civil war. It is cultural war in the sense that it is a war fought with signs and symbols rather than with guns — signs and symbols intended to elicit affiliation, allegiance, and identification with one or another party to the […]

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