The student group that acted as a sponsor for the Milo Yiannopoulos organized "Free Speech Week" at Berkeley has pulled out, and it sounds like the whole thing has been reduced to Milo, Mike Cernovich, and Pamela Geller leading a march of fascists and alt-right activists across campus under heavy police protection ( Read more... )

Patrick Blanchfield, in a review of Arlie Hochschild's Strangers in their own Land:

What her subjects want, Hochschild repeatedly says, and what they apparently see in Trump, is an opportunity for “vindication.” But “vindication” means something more than just “recognition” or “being seen.” Etymologically, “vindication” derives from a word for ( Read more... )

Thinking about a history which I understand poorly, though it is a history of the period of my life: anti-immigrant politics as a key element of the politics of white backlash in the US. I've seen a couple of people posting this video of Reagan and Bush from 1980, and it set off a chain of fascination. There seems to be a reading of this that it ( Read more... )