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    <title>They Wanted a University Without Cancel Culture. Then Dissenters Were Ousted. - POLITICO</title>
    <dc:date>2026-02-07T20:26:17+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[--- Among many other juicy bits, I'll highlight this, for a couple of reasons:

"In a last-ditch effort of sorts, Rauch, Haidt and Strossen organized a call with Carvalho. The discussion didn’t inspire confidence in the group, said someone with knowledge of the call who was granted anonymity to speak candidly. Carvalho basically told them that UATX was a right-wing project, and that they’d known this when they signed up. But that wasn’t what any of them had believed."

1. I've met Carvalho and liked him, and respect his technical work, and am disappointed to see him involved in something like this.  (I'm sure he's crushed.)
2. This bit about Rauch, Haidt, and Strossen nags at me.  Like them or hate them --- and I have by far the most respect for Strossen's work, out of those three --- they are all mature, experienced public intellectuals.  They didn't think they were participating in a project of reactionary culture-warring, but in a real university.  I do not think that a Great-Books focused school needs to be conservative or right wing, let alone reacitonary.  (I think such a school will struggle to teach STEM subjects, or have to quitely abandon Great Books for that part of its curriculum, but that's a separate issue.)  I even think there can be conservative universities which really _are_ universities.  (Historically, after all, most of them have been, most of the time.)  But it was obvious to me, from the first time I heard about the University of Austin and the people sponsoring it, that it was going to be a reactionary culture-war project.  So why wasn't it obvious to Haidt, Rauch, and Strossen?  How could they not see that?
3. (Not directly related to this quote) _The Language of God_, while not a _good_ book, was in fact written by a real scientist (Francis Collins, at the time the director of the NIH [when that meant something]), and argues for theistic evolution, rather than creationism.  Honestly, if I was teaching a basic science course and wanted to not make very conservative teenagers' heads explode, I might assign it, or something similar, to give them a path towards accepting the elementary facts of life.  (This may or may not be why it was on the syllabus.)
4. That bust looks nothing at all like Bari Weiss.]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Leading figures associated with the alt-right have disappeared into obscurity, self-immolated, and reinvented themselves as centrists. Meanwhile, the ideology’s ideas have diffused across the political landscape. As a movement, the alt-right failed. Its ascendance, such as it was, was always more symptomatic of a larger transformation: the collapse of guardrails and gatekeepers on the right."]]></description>
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    <title>Yarvin’s Case Against Democracy | Commonweal Magazine</title>
    <dc:date>2023-03-20T17:50:10+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["All this gave Yarvin’s work a kind of pseudo-countercultural quality that invited readers to regard themselves as simultaneously the innocent victims of a giant conspiracy and the members of a high-IQ elite who deserved a status well above what they got within decadent democracies."

--- The thing is, this is also a big part of Nietzsche's appeal!  (Not that there is any comparison in intellectual merit between Nietzsche and Moldbug.)]]></description>
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    <title>Virginia Thomas urged White House chief to pursue unrelenting efforts to overturn the 2020 election, texts show - The Washington Post</title>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[--- Need to find the Norman Cohn quote about underworlds of paranoid fantasies occasionally taking power.
]]></description>
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    <title>The disastrous voyage of Satoshi, the world’s first cryptocurrency cruise ship | Cryptocurrencies | The Guardian</title>
    <dc:date>2021-09-10T03:19:12+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/sep/07/disastrous-voyage-satoshi-cryptocurrency-cruise-ship-seassteading</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Needs moar actual disasters.  As it is, it's just _mildly_ ridiculous.  (There is however a dissertation to be written on the role of insurance companies here.)]]></description>
<dc:subject>bitcoin utter_stupidity coronavirus_pandemic_of_2019-- running_dogs_of_reaction</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:db2da3ec828c/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:coronavirus_pandemic_of_2019--"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.20200513">
    <title>Media, Pulpit, and Populist Persuasion: Evidence from Father Coughlin - American Economic Association</title>
    <dc:date>2021-08-30T15:11:11+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.20200513</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["I study the political impact of the first populist radio personality in American history. Father Charles Coughlin blended populist demagoguery, anti-Semitism, and fascist sympathies to create a hugely popular radio program that attracted 30 million weekly listeners in the 1930s. I find that exposure to Father Coughlin's anti-Roosevelt broadcast reduced Franklin D. Roosevelt's vote share in the 1936 presidential election. Coughlin's effects were larger among Catholics and persisted after Coughlin left the air. Moreover, places more exposed to Coughlin's broadcast were more likely to form a local branch of the pro-Nazi German-American Bund and sold fewer war bonds during World War II."

--- I'll be interested to see how it gets around the obvious selection issue, that places where lots of people chose to listen to Coughlin, and/or places where broadcasters chose to re-broadcast him, were apt to be reactionary people and places anyway.  (Also, why on Earth is this in AER, rather than _American Historical Review_ or the like? [That's a rhetorical question, I know why...])]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB causal_inference american_history running_dogs_of_reaction media_effects</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:349250674e1b/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7864/j.ctt1vjqnxx">
    <title>The Rise of the Alt-Right on JSTOR</title>
    <dc:date>2021-07-22T15:04:46+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7864/j.ctt1vjqnxx</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>to:NB books:noted downloaded re:actually-dr-internet-is-the-name-of-the-monsters-creator running_dogs_of_reaction</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:f78eebf73109/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:downloaded"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:re:actually-dr-internet-is-the-name-of-the-monsters-creator"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/02/the-republican-party-is-now-in-its-end-stages/618132/">
    <title>The Republican Party Is Now in Its End Stages - The Atlantic</title>
    <dc:date>2021-05-09T16:52:05+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/02/the-republican-party-is-now-in-its-end-stages/618132/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The great problem with this analogy is that the modern GOP is in fact full of passionate intensity.]]></description>
<dc:subject>us_politics running_dogs_of_reaction have_read</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:00067c11e474/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/japans-cynical-romantics">
    <title>Japan’s Cynical Romantics, Precursors to the Alt-Right - Tablet Magazine</title>
    <dc:date>2021-02-15T16:12:43+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/japans-cynical-romantics</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The framing of the headline is actually less interesting than the more general phenomena being described.]]></description>
<dc:subject>have_read networked_life presentation_of_self moral_psychology japan cultural_criticism re:actually-dr-internet-is-the-name-of-the-monsters-creator running_dogs_of_reaction the_present_before_it_was_widely_distributed</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:ecbd9e108ffa/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197500699.001.0001">
    <title>This Land is My Land: Rebellion in the West - Oxford Scholarship</title>
    <dc:date>2021-01-16T05:13:09+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197500699.001.0001</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["This Land Is My Land traces three periods of conservative rebellion against federal land authority over the last forty years—the Sagebrush Rebellion (1979–1982), the War for the West (1991–2000), and the Patriot Rebellion (2009–2016)—showing how they evolved from a regional rebellion waged by westerners with material interests in federal lands to a national rebellion against the federal administrative state. It explains how Western federal land issues were integrated into national conservative politics, and how federal land issues became inseparably linked to a wide range of constitutional issues, such as freedom of religious expression, private property rights, and gun rights. As a result, federal land issues became flashpoints in conservative status politics and American civil religion, leading to armed standoffs between citizens and federal law enforcement officers in 2014, 2015, and 2016. These conflicts illustrate both the profound challenges in multiple-use management of federal land and the violent potential in American civil religion."]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB books:noted us_politics american_history running_dogs_of_reaction</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:500639da4f85/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674237698">
    <title>Bring the War Home — Kathleen Belew | Harvard University Press</title>
    <dc:date>2021-01-16T00:23:10+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674237698</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The white power movement in America wants a revolution. Its soldiers are not lone wolves but highly organized cadres motivated by a coherent and deeply troubling worldview made up of white supremacy, virulent anticommunism, and apocalyptic faith. In Bring the War Home, Kathleen Belew gives us the history of a movement that consolidated in the 1970s and 1980s around a potent sense of betrayal in the Vietnam War and made tragic headlines in Waco and Ruby Ridge and with the Oklahoma City bombing and is resurgent under President Trump.
"Returning to an America ripped apart by a war they felt they were not allowed to win, a small group of veterans and active-duty military personnel and civilian supporters concluded that waging war on their own country was justified. They unified people from a variety of militant groups, including Klansmen, neo-Nazis, skinheads, radical tax protestors, and white separatists to form a new movement of loosely affiliated independent cells to avoid detection. The white power movement operated with discipline and clarity, undertaking assassinations, armed robbery, counterfeiting, and weapons trafficking. Its command structure gave women a prominent place and put them in charge of brokering alliances and birthing future recruits.
"Belew’s disturbing and timely history reminds us that war cannot be contained in time and space: grievances intensify and violence becomes a logical course of action. Based on years of deep immersion in previously classified FBI files and on extensive interviews, Bring the War Home tells the story of American paramilitarism and the birth of the alt-right."]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB books:noted running_dogs_of_reaction us_politics</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:792c4c999fa5/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.03820">
    <title>[2101.03820] An Early Look at the Parler Online Social Network</title>
    <dc:date>2021-01-12T20:58:13+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.03820</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Parler is as an alternative social network promoting itself as a service that allows its users to "Speak freely and express yourself openly, without fear of being deplatformed for your views." Because of this promise, the platform become popular among users who were suspended on mainstream social networks for violating their terms of service, as well as those fearing censorship. In particular, the service was endorsed by several conservative public figures, encouraging people to migrate there from traditional social networks. After the events of January 6 2021, Parler has been progressively deplatformed, with its app being removed from popular mobile stores and the entire website being taken down by their hosting provider. In this paper, we provide the first data-driven characterization of Parler. We collected 120M posts from 2.1M users posted between 2018 and 2020 as well as metadata from 12M user profiles. We find that the platform has witnessed large influxes of new users after being endorsed by popular figures, as well as a reaction to the 2020 US Presidential Election. We also find that discussion on the platform is dominated by conservative topics, President Trump, as well as conspiracy theories like QAnon."]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB social_media social_networks networked_life running_dogs_of_reaction</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:8ff46310de9f/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://outsidertheory.com/theorycels-in-trumpworld/">
    <title>Theorycels in Trumpworld - OUTSIDER THEORY</title>
    <dc:date>2021-01-10T16:25:16+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://outsidertheory.com/theorycels-in-trumpworld/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>us_culture_wars running_dogs_of_reaction humanities trump.donald</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:d67c02147752/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/08/11/evans-disinformation-florida-email">
    <title>’The Bearded Patriot’ publishes conservative ‘news’ hoping to gather email addresses - The Washington Post</title>
    <dc:date>2020-11-29T19:38:29+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/08/11/evans-disinformation-florida-email</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>networked_life have_read rhetorical_self-fashioning deceiving_us_has_become_an_industrial_process epidemiology_of_representations running_dogs_of_reaction vast_right-wing_conspiracy utter_stupidity advertising re:actually-dr-internet-is-the-name-of-the-monsters-creator</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:b9f0a48fc849/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.12843">
    <title>[2011.12843] Evaluating the scale, growth, and origins of right-wing echo chambers on YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2020-11-29T10:45:24+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.12843</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Although it is understudied relative to other social media platforms, YouTube is arguably the largest and most engaging online media consumption platform in the world. Recently, YouTube's outsize influence has sparked concerns that its recommendation algorithm systematically directs users to radical right-wing content. Here we investigate these concerns with large scale longitudinal data of individuals' browsing behavior spanning January 2016 through December 2019. Consistent with previous work, we find that political news content accounts for a relatively small fraction (11%) of consumption on YouTube, and is dominated by mainstream and largely centrist sources. However, we also find evidence for a small but growing "echo chamber" of far-right content consumption. Users in this community show higher engagement and greater "stickiness" than users who consume any other category of content. Moreover, YouTube accounts for an increasing fraction of these users' overall online news consumption. Finally, while the size, intensity, and growth of this echo chamber present real concerns, we find no evidence that they are caused by YouTube recommendations. Rather, consumption of radical content on YouTube appears to reflect broader patterns of news consumption across the web. Our results emphasize the importance of measuring consumption directly rather than inferring it from recommendations."]]></description>
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<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:11442c9e694f/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://science.sciencemag.org/content/369/6508/1197">
    <title>False equivalencies: Online activism from left to right | Science</title>
    <dc:date>2020-09-04T18:28:11+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://science.sciencemag.org/content/369/6508/1197</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Digital media are critical for contemporary activism—even low-effort “clicktivism” is politically consequential and contributes to offline participation. We argue that in the United States and throughout the industrialized West, left- and right-wing activists use digital and legacy media differently to achieve political goals. Although left-wing actors operate primarily through “hashtag activism” and offline protest, right-wing activists manipulate legacy media, migrate to alternative platforms, and work strategically with partisan media to spread their messages. Although scholarship suggests that the right has embraced strategic disinformation and conspiracy theories more than the left, more research is needed to reveal the magnitude and character of left-wing disinformation. Such ideological asymmetries between left- and right-wing activism hold critical implications for democratic practice, social media governance, and the interdisciplinary study of digital politics."]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB networked_life why_oh_why_cant_we_have_a_better_press_corps vast_right-wing_conspiracy progressive_forces running_dogs_of_reaction political_science re:actually-dr-internet-is-the-name-of-the-monsters-creator</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:f19eb42fcc25/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://reason.com/2020/05/07/she-said-anthony-fauci-sexually-assaulted-her-now-she-says-jacob-wohl-and-jack-burkman-paid-her-to-lie/">
    <title>She Said Anthony Fauci Sexually Assaulted Her. Now She Says Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman Paid Her to Lie. – Reason.com</title>
    <dc:date>2020-05-07T18:23:57+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://reason.com/2020/05/07/she-said-anthony-fauci-sexually-assaulted-her-now-she-says-jacob-wohl-and-jack-burkman-paid-her-to-lie/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>utter_stupidity us_politics us_culture_wars coronavirus_pandemic_of_2019-- running_dogs_of_reaction</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:9e366d9452a0/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://arcdigital.media/debunking-coronavirus-trutherism-c290fc660a12">
    <title>Debunking Coronavirus Trutherism - Arc Digital</title>
    <dc:date>2020-04-23T18:56:41+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://arcdigital.media/debunking-coronavirus-trutherism-c290fc660a12</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>coronavirus_pandemic_of_2019-- utter_stupidity psychoceramics running_dogs_of_reaction</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:8dd689d86ef5/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/nudging-towards-theocracy">
    <title>Nudging Towards Theocracy: Adrian Vermeule's War on Liberalism | Dissent Magazine</title>
    <dc:date>2020-04-13T17:08:07+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/nudging-towards-theocracy</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>running_dogs_of_reaction why_oh_why_cant_we_have_a_better_intelligentsia</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:c4723e3637ae/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/epstein-trump-coronavirus-crackpot/">
    <title>All the President’s Crackpots | The Nation</title>
    <dc:date>2020-03-31T16:14:20+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/epstein-trump-coronavirus-crackpot/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Look, Epstein is a kook, but the idea that pathogens evolve to be milder _is_ one which many biologists used to advocate on Darwinian (not Lamarckian) grounds, on the simple basis that mutations which make a pathogen less lethal let it reproduce longer in the same host.  The difficulty with this line of argument is that a mutation which makes a pathogen _more_ lethal can be fitness-enhancing if it _also_ increases its rate of transmission.  (In an SIR model where the infection rate is b and the recovery/removal rate is c, R0 is b/c.  So, ceteris paribus, a mutation which decreases c by letting hosts live longer will be favored, but one which decreases c can be favored if it also increases b.  Here endeth the math-y excursion.)  Ewald's _Evolution of Infectious Disease_ (1996) goes over the older thinking, before explaining the mistakes.
And of course the rate of evolution of a virus will depend on how quickly _it_ reproduces, which can be very fast.  No inheritance of acquired characteristics is needed.  (IIRC, Hayek was fairly clear that he thought of social evolution as a Darwinian rather than Lamarckian process at the level of social practices and norms, but my memories of that are hazy.)
In short, Epstein is a crank who has no business opining about epidemiology, and he's an influential crank because he's embedded in a network of useful idiots, but he's not _exactly_ the type of crank Jeer is saying.  (More cautiously, Jeer hasn't proved his case.)]]></description>
<dc:subject>running_dogs_of_reaction vast_right-wing_conspiracy epidemiology coronavirus_pandemic_of_2019-- jeer.heet epstein.richard via:?</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:3454012c5301/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2020/02/the-derivations-of-charles-koch/">
    <title>The Derivations of Charles Koch - American Affairs Journal</title>
    <dc:date>2020-03-04T23:11:13+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2020/02/the-derivations-of-charles-koch/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>running_dogs_of_reaction evisceration</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:c8702335ec86/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/among-the-post-liberals">
    <title>Among the Post-Liberals | Dissent Magazine</title>
    <dc:date>2020-02-24T16:20:12+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/among-the-post-liberals</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["We get innumerable denunciations of liberalism’s denial of truth and the good, but fewer suggestions of what their regime would actually do in power. Ban abortion, surely; ban homosexuality, maybe (although even here we can detect some newfound waffling); then what? If attempts to sketch a post-liberal program often bounce between rote communitarianism and empty theatrics, this may reflect the fact that the historical project that gave Louis IX’s France its coherence—what Jones calls “a sort of permanent crusade,” unapologetically wielding an entirely non-metaphorical sword against the heretic and the infidel—no longer seems attractive even to most self-styled reactionaries. No one really has the stomach to burn out the tongues of blasphemers anymore, even if some remain too ornery to admit it. Perhaps breaking free of liberalism is harder than it looks."]]></description>
<dc:subject>liberalism running_dogs_of_reaction attacks_on_liberalism</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:e287526bd63e/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://thebreakthrough.org/journal/no-12-winter-2020/avocado-politics">
    <title>The Coming Avocado Politics | The Breakthrough Institute</title>
    <dc:date>2020-02-16T04:52:28+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://thebreakthrough.org/journal/no-12-winter-2020/avocado-politics</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Cf. what Bruce Sterling, 20+ years ago, called "khaki green".]]></description>
<dc:subject>running_dogs_of_reaction environmentalism</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:8733861c6c1f/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2019/08/the-new-brazilian-right/">
    <title>The New Brazilian Right - American Affairs Journal</title>
    <dc:date>2019-12-18T19:58:12+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2019/08/the-new-brazilian-right/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>brazil running_dogs_of_reaction</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:dcf3e6080c9f/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.bookforum.com/print/2604/troll-call-23760">
    <title>Troll Call - Bookforum Magazine</title>
    <dc:date>2019-12-02T16:55:18+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.bookforum.com/print/2604/troll-call-23760</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>book_reviews running_dogs_of_reaction networked_life re:actually-dr-internet-is-the-name-of-the-monsters-creator</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:e53781035c08/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:re:actually-dr-internet-is-the-name-of-the-monsters-creator"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://arcdigital.media/campus-free-speech-under-threat-from-the-right-8d4a8506a056">
    <title>Campus Free Speech, Under Threat From the Right - Arc Digital</title>
    <dc:date>2019-11-05T07:44:35+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://arcdigital.media/campus-free-speech-under-threat-from-the-right-8d4a8506a056</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>academic_freedom running_dogs_of_reaction us_culture_wars us_politics</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:4c71ee36dc1a/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:us_culture_wars"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9781469611112_barkun">
    <title>Religion and the Racist Right: The Origins of the Christian Identity Movement on JSTOR</title>
    <dc:date>2019-08-25T20:44:25+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9781469611112_barkun</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>to_download books:recommended running_dogs_of_reaction conspiracy_theories psychoceramics pure_products_of_america racism christianity in_NB</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:440d9e55f193/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/288999/japans-cynical-romantics">
    <title>Japan’s Cynical Romantics, Precursors to the Alt-Right – Tablet Magazine</title>
    <dc:date>2019-08-19T21:39:01+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/288999/japans-cynical-romantics</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>re:actually-dr-internet-is-the-name-of-the-monsters-creator japan running_dogs_of_reaction networked_life have_read</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:6a1d0851392f/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://quomodocumque.wordpress.com/2019/08/03/6397/">
    <title>A lot of affluent liberals | Quomodocumque</title>
    <dc:date>2019-08-05T13:43:44+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://quomodocumque.wordpress.com/2019/08/03/6397/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Ah, home.]]></description>
<dc:subject>why_oh_why_cant_we_have_a_better_press_corps montgomery_county_maryland nimbyism ellenberg.jordan running_dogs_of_reaction class_struggles_in_america</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:0fa8715675fe/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://journal.sjdm.org/19/190305/jdm190305.html">
    <title>Right-wing ideology and numeracy: A perception of greater ability, but poorer performance</title>
    <dc:date>2019-08-03T23:07:26+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://journal.sjdm.org/19/190305/jdm190305.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Right-wing ideology and cognitive ability, including objective numeracy, have been found to relate negatively. Although objective and subjective numeracy correlate positively, it is unclear whether subjective numeracy relates to political ideology in the same way. Replicating and extending previous research, across two samples of American adults (ns= 455, 406), those who performed worse on objective numeracy tasks scored higher on right-wing authoritarianism (RWA) and social dominance orientation (SDO), and they self-identified as more conservative on general, social, and economic continua. Controlling for objective numeracy, subjective numeracy related positively to measures of right-wing ideologies. In other words, those who strongly (vs. weakly) endorsed right-wing ideologies believed they are good with numbers yet performed worse on numeracy tasks. We discuss implications for the opposing direction of associations between ideology with objective versus subjective numeracy and similarities with literature on overconfidence."]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB psychology running_dogs_of_reaction numeracy</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:56df17318704/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.urban.org/research/publication/literature-review-conservative-philanthropy-higher-education">
    <title>Literature Review: Conservative Philanthropy in Higher Education | Urban Institute</title>
    <dc:date>2019-06-23T22:31:14+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.urban.org/research/publication/literature-review-conservative-philanthropy-higher-education</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["For more than half a century, factions within the conservative movement have sought to promote free-market and free-enterprise principles through philanthropy directed to college campuses. This literature review focuses on a number of such philanthropic initiatives, analyzes the impact claims made for them, and highlights areas where more research is needed."]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB academia think_tanks running_dogs_of_reaction law_and_economics</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:fa6ddac5c9c7/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://pghguild.com/2019/02/13/newspaper-guild-of-pittsburgh-eyewitness-accounts-of-the-incident-involving-pittsburgh-post-gazette-publisher-john-robinson-block/">
    <title>Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh eyewitness accounts of the incident involving Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Publisher John Robinson Block – The Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh</title>
    <dc:date>2019-02-14T13:44:22+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://pghguild.com/2019/02/13/newspaper-guild-of-pittsburgh-eyewitness-accounts-of-the-incident-involving-pittsburgh-post-gazette-publisher-john-robinson-block/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>pittsburgh class_struggles_in_america why_oh_why_cant_we_have_a_better_press_corps journalism running_dogs_of_reaction unions</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:58b35a5cfaad/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-alt-rights-moment-has-come-and-gone/">
    <title>The Alt-Right’s Moment Has Come and Gone | The American Conservative</title>
    <dc:date>2018-12-07T14:16:03+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-alt-rights-moment-has-come-and-gone/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>running_dogs_of_reaction us_politics track_down_references</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:e75fe82107d7/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674979970">
    <title>The Republican Reversal — James Morton Turner, Andrew C. Isenberg | Harvard University Press</title>
    <dc:date>2018-09-12T14:19:23+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674979970</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Not long ago, Republicans could take pride in their party’s tradition of environmental leadership. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the GOP helped to create the Environmental Protection Agency, extend the Clean Air Act, and protect endangered species. Today, as Republicans denounce climate change as a “hoax” and seek to dismantle the environmental regulatory state they worked to build, we are left to wonder: What happened?
"In The Republican Reversal, James Morton Turner and Andrew C. Isenberg show that the party’s transformation began in the late 1970s, with the emergence of a new alliance of pro-business, libertarian, and anti-federalist voters. This coalition came about through a concerted effort by politicians and business leaders, abetted by intellectuals and policy experts, to link the commercial interests of big corporate donors with states’-rights activism and Main Street regulatory distrust. Fiscal conservatives embraced cost-benefit analysis to counter earlier models of environmental policy making, and business tycoons funded think tanks to denounce federal environmental regulation as economically harmful, constitutionally suspect, and unchristian, thereby appealing to evangelical views of man’s God-given dominion of the Earth.
"As Turner and Isenberg make clear, the conservative abdication of environmental concern stands out as one of the most profound turnabouts in modern American political history, critical to our understanding of the GOP’s modern success. The Republican reversal on the environment is emblematic of an unwavering faith in the market, skepticism of scientific and technocratic elites, and belief in American exceptionalism that have become the party’s distinguishing characteristics."]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2018-08-08T13:55:03+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://democracyjournal.org/magazine/19/the-science-wars-redux/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Note the date.]]></description>
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    <title>Opinion | Inside the World of Racist Science Fiction - The New York Times</title>
    <dc:date>2018-08-02T22:03:08+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/30/opinion/inside-the-world-of-racist-science-fiction.html</link>
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    <title>The “Intellectual Dark Web,” explained: What Jordan Peterson and Ben Shapiro have in common with the alt-right - Vox</title>
    <dc:date>2018-05-10T16:48:57+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2018/5/10/17338290/intellectual-dark-web-rogan-peterson-harris-times-weiss</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>why_oh_why_cant_we_have_a_better_intelligentsia running_dogs_of_reaction kith_and_kin farrell.henry</dc:subject>
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    <title>Cambridge Analytica's Self-Own - The Atlantic</title>
    <dc:date>2018-03-25T17:38:43+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/03/cambridge-analyticas-self-own/556016/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I think it's important to keep in mind _both_ that this is scandalous mis-behavior _and_ that these people seem to be quacks...]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.statnews.com/2017/08/16/white-nationalists-genetic-ancestry-test/">
    <title>White nationalists flock to genetic ancestry tests. Some don't like the result</title>
    <dc:date>2018-01-30T16:59:48+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.statnews.com/2017/08/16/white-nationalists-genetic-ancestry-test/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>genetics human_genetics running_dogs_of_reaction racist_idiocy have_read</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.aaup.org/article/new-reality-far-rights-use-cyberharassment-against-academics#.WnCh_pM-fAI">
    <title>A New Reality? The Far Right's Use of Cyberharassment against Academics | AAUP</title>
    <dc:date>2018-01-30T16:49:38+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.aaup.org/article/new-reality-far-rights-use-cyberharassment-against-academics#.WnCh_pM-fAI</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["A firsthand account by a targeted faculty member."]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2017-11-16T23:58:27+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/12/brotherhood-of-losers/544158/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>have_read us_politics nagle.andrea running_dogs_of_reaction networked_life social_media</dc:subject>
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    <title>Andrew Anglin: The Making of an American Nazi - The Atlantic</title>
    <dc:date>2017-11-15T18:45:47+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/12/the-making-of-an-american-nazi/544119/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>trolls_and_trolling running_dogs_of_reaction fascism networked_life social_media have_read via:? conspiracy_theories epidemiology_of_representations</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="https://balkin.blogspot.com/2017/10/corrupting-national-book-award.html">
    <title>Balkinization: Corrupting the National Book Award?</title>
    <dc:date>2017-10-26T19:42:29+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://balkin.blogspot.com/2017/10/corrupting-national-book-award.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>vast_right-wing_conspiracy running_dogs_of_reaction history_of_ideas 20th_century_history us_politics</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://thebaffler.com/latest/the-moldbug-variations-pein">
    <title>The Moldbug Variations | Corey Pein</title>
    <dc:date>2017-10-10T16:28:22+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://thebaffler.com/latest/the-moldbug-variations-pein</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>us_politics running_dogs_of_reaction nerdworld thiel.peter</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://us.macmillan.com/liveworkworkworkdie/coreypein/9781627794855/">
    <title>Live Work Work Work Die | Corey Pein | Macmillan</title>
    <dc:date>2017-10-10T16:27:15+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://us.macmillan.com/liveworkworkworkdie/coreypein/9781627794855/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["At the height of the startup boom, journalist Corey Pein set out for Silicon Valley with little more than a smartphone and his wits. His goal: to learn how such an overhyped industry could possibly sustain itself as long as it has. Determined to cut through the clichés of big tech—the relentless optimism, the mandatory enthusiasm, and the earnest, incessant repetition of vacuous buzzwords—Pein decided that he would need to take an approach as unorthodox as the companies he would soon be covering. To truly understand the delirious reality of a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, he knew, he would have to inhabit that perspective—he would have to become an entrepreneur. Thus he begins his journey—skulking through gimmicky tech conferences, pitching his over-the-top business ideas to investors, and interviewing a cast of outrageous characters: cyborgs and con artists, Teamsters and transhumanists, jittery hackers and naive upstart programmers whose entire lives are managed by their employers—who work endlessly and obediently, never thinking to question their place in the system.
"In showing us this frantic world, Pein challenges the positive, feel-good self-image that the tech tycoons have crafted—as nerdy and benevolent creators of wealth and opportunity—revealing their self-justifying views and their insidious visions for the future. Indeed, as Pein shows, Silicon Valley is awash in disreputable ideas: Google executive and futurist Raymond Kurzweil has a side business peddling dietary supplements and has for years pushed the outlandish notion that human beings are destined to merge with computers and live forever in some kind of digital cosmic hive mind. Peter Thiel, the billionaire venture capitalist affiliated with PayPal and Facebook, is now an important advisor to President Trump and has subsidized a prolific blogger known by the pen name Mencius Moldbug who writes approvingly of ideas like eugenics and dictatorship. And Moldbug is not alone. There is, in fact, a small but influential—and growing—group of techies with similarly absurd and extremist beliefs who call themselves the “neoreactionary” vanguard of a “Dark Enlightenment.”
"Vivid and incisive, Live Work Work Work Die is a troubling portrait of a self-obsessed industry bent on imposing its disturbing visions on the rest of us."

--- By the author of the instant-classic "Mouthbreathing Machiavellis Dream of a Silicon Reich" (https://thebaffler.com/latest/mouthbreathing-machiavellis).]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.thedailybeast.com/from-lucifers-hammer-to-newts-moon-base-to-donalds-wallthe-sci-fi-roots-of-the-far-right">
    <title>The Sci-Fi Roots of the Far Right—From ‘Lucifer’s Hammer’ to Newt’s Moon Base to Donald’s Wall</title>
    <dc:date>2017-09-18T16:37:52+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/from-lucifers-hammer-to-newts-moon-base-to-donalds-wallthe-sci-fi-roots-of-the-far-right</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I don't remember old-school Niven & Pournelle being _that_ bad, but, well, there are the words...]]></description>
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    <title>Alt-America The Rise of the Radical Right in the Age of Trump by David Neiwert</title>
    <dc:date>2017-08-26T18:21:26+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.versobooks.com/books/2535-alt-america</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Just as Donald Trump’s victorious campaign for the US presidency shocked the world, the seemingly sudden national prominence of white supremacists, xenophobes, militia leaders, and mysterious “alt-right” figures mystifies many. But the American extreme right has been growing steadily in number and influence since the 1990s with the rise of patriot militias. Following 9/11, conspiracy theorists found fresh life; and in virulent reaction to the first black US president, militant racists have come out of the woodwork. Nurtured by a powerful right-wing media sector in radio, TV, and online, the far right, Tea Party movement conservatives, and Republican activists found common ground. Figures such as Stephen Bannon, Milo Yiannopoulos, and Alex Jones, once rightly dismissed as cranks, now haunt the reports of mainstream journalism.
"Investigative reporter David Neiwert has been tracking extremists for more than two decades. In Alt-America, he provides a deeply researched and authoritative report on the growth of fascism and far-right terrorism, the violence of which in the last decade has surpassed anything inspired by Islamist or other ideologies in the United States. The product of years of reportage, and including the most in-depth investigation of Trump’s ties to the far right, this is a crucial book about one of the most disturbing aspects of American society."

--- That's quite a cover...]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://cup.columbia.edu/book/making-sense-of-the-alt-right/9780231185127">
    <title>Making Sense of the Alt-Right | Columbia University Press</title>
    <dc:date>2017-08-26T18:16:31+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://cup.columbia.edu/book/making-sense-of-the-alt-right/9780231185127</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["During the 2016 election, a new term entered the mainstream American political lexicon: “alt-right,” short for “alternative right.” Despite the innocuous name, the alt-right is a white-nationalist movement. Yet it differs from earlier racist groups: it is youthful and tech savvy, obsessed with provocation and trolling, amorphous, predominantly online, and mostly anonymous. And it was energized by Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. In Making Sense of the Alt-Right, George Hawley provides an accessible introduction and gives vital perspective on the emergence of a group whose overt racism has confounded expectations for a more tolerant America.
"Hawley explains the movement’s origins, evolution, methods, and core belief in white-identity politics. The book explores how the alt-right differs from traditional white nationalism, libertarianism, and other online illiberal ideologies such as neoreaction, as well as from mainstream Republicans and even Donald Trump and Steve Bannon. The alt-right’s use of offensive humor and its trolling-driven approach, based in animosity to so-called political correctness, can make it difficult to determine true motivations. Yet through exclusive interviews and a careful study of the alt-right’s influential texts, Hawley is able to paint a full picture of a movement that not only disagrees with liberalism but also fundamentally rejects most of the tenets of American conservatism. Hawley points to the alt-right’s growing influence and makes a case for coming to a precise understanding of its beliefs without sensationalism or downplaying the movement’s radicalism."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.currentaffairs.org/2017/07/why-is-charles-murray-odious">
    <title>Why Is Charles Murray Odious? | Current Affairs | Culture &amp; Politics</title>
    <dc:date>2017-07-28T01:13:45+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.currentaffairs.org/2017/07/why-is-charles-murray-odious</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>murray.charles racism evisceration utter_stupidity running_dogs_of_reaction iq</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9841.html">
    <title>Binder, A.J. and Wood, K.: Becoming Right: How Campuses Shape Young Conservatives. (eBook and Paperback)</title>
    <dc:date>2017-07-27T16:01:04+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9841.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Conservative pundits allege that the pervasive liberalism of America's colleges and universities has detrimental effects on undergraduates, most particularly right-leaning ones. Yet not enough attention has actually been paid to young conservatives to test these claims—until now. In Becoming Right, Amy Binder and Kate Wood carefully explore who conservative students are, and how their beliefs and political activism relate to their university experiences.
"Rich in interviews and insight, Becoming Right illustrates that the diverse conservative movement evolving among today’s college students holds important implications for the direction of American politics."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/7/14/15967788/democracy-shackles-james-buchanan-intellectual-history-maclean">
    <title>Even the intellectual left is drawn to conspiracy theories about the right. Resist them. - Vox</title>
    <dc:date>2017-07-19T22:22:49+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/7/14/15967788/democracy-shackles-james-buchanan-intellectual-history-maclean</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>conspiracy_theories progressive_forces kith_and_kin farrell.henry lives_of_the_scholars running_dogs_of_reaction vast_right-wing_conspiracy</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2017/05/02/legitimate-versions-of-bret-stephens-column/">
    <title>Legitimate Versions of Bret Stephens’ Column | Easily Distracted</title>
    <dc:date>2017-07-19T20:14:13+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2017/05/02/legitimate-versions-of-bret-stephens-column/</link>
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<item rdf:about="https://newrepublic.com/article/143722/alt-right-learned-left">
    <title>What the Alt-Right Learned from the Left | New Republic</title>
    <dc:date>2017-07-09T15:00:38+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://newrepublic.com/article/143722/alt-right-learned-left</link>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2017/5/1/allen-report-frontline-speech/#.WQfMUGa29jo.twitter">
    <title>A Report From the Frontlines of the Free Speech Wars | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson</title>
    <dc:date>2017-05-02T18:53:24+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2017/5/1/allen-report-frontline-speech/#.WQfMUGa29jo.twitter</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>allen.danielle_s. vast_right-wing_conspiracy running_dogs_of_reaction academia academic_freedom</dc:subject>
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<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:f596fe0c0d62/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/02/paleocons-for-porn/">
    <title>Paleocons for Porn | Jacobin</title>
    <dc:date>2017-03-29T16:03:40+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/02/paleocons-for-porn/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["While liberals enjoyed cultural hegemony and became complacent and intellectually lazy, the young transgressives of the alt-right produced an undeniable level of creative energy. The war for the soul of America Pat Buchanan waged in the 1990s has long since been won by the cultural left, and the tyrannical overreach of liberal intellectual conformity undoubtedly helped create the youthful rebellion against it. But this temporary alliance of very different factions — the most stark being between the traditionalist right and the libertinism of chan culture — has produced a schizophrenic incoherence.
"The alt-right mourns European culture’s decline but has itself created the most degraded and degenerate forms of culture the West has ever seen in its own fetid forums. It romanticizes the West but hates its Christian “slave morality” and the best of its intellectual traditions. The alt-right uses the now completely bankrupt language of counterculture and transgression when they talk about being “the new punk,” which should serve as a reminder of how empty those ideas have now become.
"But how will that framing continue to make sense during the Trump era? When liberals are no longer in power, the philosophical irreconcilability between its paleo-conservatism, which aims for a return to traditional marriage while disapproving of porn and promiscuity, and the amoral libertine Internet culture from which all the real energy has emerged, will soon begin to show."]]></description>
<dc:subject>us_politics utter_stupidity networked_life running_dogs_of_reaction decline_of_american_character re:actually-dr-internet-is-the-name-of-the-monsters-creator</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/03/17/dr-sebastian-gorka-may-be-a-far-right-nativist-but-for-sure-hes-a-terrible-scholar-trump-radical-islam/">
    <title>Dr. Sebastian Gorka May Be a Far-Right Nativist, But for Sure He’s a Terrible Scholar | Foreign Policy</title>
    <dc:date>2017-03-18T16:09:10+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/03/17/dr-sebastian-gorka-may-be-a-far-right-nativist-but-for-sure-hes-a-terrible-scholar-trump-radical-islam/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>why_oh_why_cant_we_have_a_better_intelligentsia terrorism_fears utter_stupidity academia running_dogs_of_reaction nexon.daniel gorka.sebastian trump.donald</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/12/16/stony-brook-philosophy-phd-says-his-department-plans-review-amid-claims-hes-neo-nazi">
    <title>Stony Brook philosophy Ph.D. says his department plans review amid claims he's a neo-Nazi</title>
    <dc:date>2016-12-19T22:08:18+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/12/16/stony-brook-philosophy-phd-says-his-department-plans-review-amid-claims-hes-neo-nazi</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[From my perspective, it's a bigger disgrace for SUNY that a philosophy department passed a thesis on "those latent human capacities hitherto marginalized as ‘paranormal'".]]></description>
<dc:subject>psychoceramica philosophy why_oh_why_cant_we_have_a_better_intelligentsia utter_stupidity running_dogs_of_reaction racism via:? have_read</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.mtv.com/news/2961198/the-death-of-obamacare/">
    <title>The Death Of Obamacare - MTV</title>
    <dc:date>2016-12-09T01:22:31+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.mtv.com/news/2961198/the-death-of-obamacare/</link>
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<item rdf:about="http://democracyjournal.org/magazine/43/can-truth-survive-trump/">
    <title>Can Truth Survive Trump? : Democracy Journal</title>
    <dc:date>2016-11-23T03:22:52+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://democracyjournal.org/magazine/43/can-truth-survive-trump/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Trump’s success has demonstrated the potential for an illiberal democracy predicated on denial of unwelcome truths. Liberal democracy cannot endure if such denial goes unchallenged. But first we must reckon with our own denial. We refused to believe that this could happen. We too were blind; disaster has forced us to see. To cope with this catastrophe, we will need an amazing grace, which I am not at all sure we are capable of mustering. For all our misgivings, we believed that, in the end, truth would overcome. It did not. The realization that this could happen here will cast a pall over us for quite some time. I doubt I will live to see its end."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2016/11/19/trumps-election-has-undermined-political-correctness-thats-a-huge-problem/">
    <title>Trump’s election has undermined ‘political correctness.’ That might actually be a problem. - The Washington Post</title>
    <dc:date>2016-11-20T16:16:15+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2016/11/19/trumps-election-has-undermined-political-correctness-thats-a-huge-problem/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>us_politics racism preference_falsification information_cascades trump.donald farrell.henry kith_and_kin running_dogs_of_reaction</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo22879533.html">
    <title>The Politics of Resentment: Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of Scott Walker, Cramer</title>
    <dc:date>2016-11-10T16:32:09+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo22879533.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Since the election of Scott Walker, Wisconsin has been seen as ground zero for debates about the appropriate role of government in the wake of the Great Recession. In a time of rising inequality, Walker not only survived a bitterly contested recall that brought thousands of protesters to Capitol Square, he was subsequently reelected. How could this happen? How is it that the very people who stand to benefit from strong government services not only vote against the candidates who support those services but are vehemently against the very idea of big government?
"With The Politics of Resentment, Katherine J. Cramer uncovers an oft-overlooked piece of the puzzle: rural political consciousness and the resentment of the “liberal elite.” Rural voters are distrustful that politicians will respect the distinct values of their communities and allocate a fair share of resources. What can look like disagreements about basic political principles are therefore actually rooted in something even more fundamental: who we are as people and how closely a candidate’s social identity matches our own. Using Scott Walker and Wisconsin’s prominent and protracted debate about the appropriate role of government, Cramer illuminates the contours of rural consciousness, showing how place-based identities profoundly influence how people understand politics, regardless of whether urban politicians and their supporters really do shortchange or look down on those living in the country.
"The Politics of Resentment shows that rural resentment—no less than partisanship, race, or class—plays a major role in dividing America against itself."]]></description>
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    <title>The Great Paradox</title>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This (forgive the expression) whitewashes much of the US 20th century history (to say nothing of earlier), but it's heart is in the right place.]]></description>
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