This Week's Recommended Reading on Substack:
Jessica Valenti writes that “it’s not that I think young men are inherently dangerous, or that something awful is sure to happen should Layla find herself in a room alone with boys she’s known since kindergarten. It’s that again and again—whether on campuses, in locker rooms, or at the voting booth—men keep failing to do the right thing. They keep failing us.”
Scot Nakagawa writes that “when people imagine democracy dying, they usually picture a canceled election, a tank in the streets or a court packed overnight. Those things happen. But they’re rarely where it starts.”
Jared Yates Sexton writes that “fascism is a strange ideology with a universe of conflicting and bizarre beliefs and rituals. Among the strongest is the ritualization of death that both mirrors and serves the main political drive of fascism: the creation of in groups and out groups.”
Judd Legum writes that “Katie Zacharia, who was appointed White House press secretary by President Trump on Friday, repeatedly promoted the debunked Pizzagate conspiracy on social media, accusing elites from the Democratic Party and Hollywood of sexually trafficking children and eating people.”
Phil Williams writes that “across a network of right-wing podcasts, some of the most radical names in the world of Christian nationalism have argued the Clancy case—and the emotional online reactions of some female defenders—provides more evidence of the need to deprive women of the right to vote or to have any real say in American life.”
Laura Jeffries writes that “talking about the content white nationalists create and circulate today is, unfortunately, a worthwhile endeavor. For too long, most of the American public has ignored or been unaware of how much nationalists, fascists, and other kinds of white power activists and creators are doing. And they are definitely doing too much.”
Michael Corech writes that “so begins another season of Nazi infighting, the telenovela where nobody gets a redemption arc and the finale usually involves them killing one another. This time they only missed a deadline, which by movement standards counts as conflict resolution.”
