Recommended Reading: Stop Trying To Make Sense and the Way to End Antisemitism and Extremism
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Recommended Reading: Stop Trying To Make Sense and the Way to End Antisemitism and Extremism
This Week's Recommended Reading on Substack: Jared Yates Sexton, Elad Nehorai, Jordan Zakarin, Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Chris Geidner, Kelly Weill, and Hemant Mehta
The Week's Recommended Reading on Substack:
writes that “when people like Musk use the term ‘freedom of speech,’ when Trump utters ‘law and order,’ when Netanyahu stands there claiming to represent Israel, when Republicans talk of ‘nationalism’ and ‘patriotism,’ what you are actually interacting with isn’t a principle or belief or anything of the sort.” writes that the fight “against antisemitism and extremism at large are failing. The leaders in charge of this fight haven’t succeeded. Political and spiritual leaders who represent an alternative are failing.” writes that “whereas that effort failed to topple democracy with one furious convulsion, the professional right is carrying out daily attacks on American democracy, chipping away from the inside.”
Ruth Ben-Ghiat writes that “strongmen scams recur throughout authoritarian history, not least because they are at the heart of autocratic personality cults that celebrate the leader as a man of the people. Speaking in the plain and blunt language of the truth-teller, such individuals pose as one of us, us being the pure expression of the nation unadulterated by foreign origins or "globalist" affiliations.”
writes that “we need to be thinking about how these varying plans overlap and conflict in the weeks and months ahead — to talk about and understand the plans, but also to prepare to respond, regardless of the election’s results.” writes that “one of the nation’s most hotly contested school board battlegrounds turned blue this month, with voters moving to oust a hard-right board in favor of an all-Democratic lineup.” writes that state officials in Oregon “have been paying a Christian non-profit group massive amounts of money to house foster children with little to no regulation.”
Thanks for sharing, Teddy!