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The left is always, but particularly in the era of Donald Trump, wailing over white Christian “supremacy.” Jeremy Scahill, writing months before the election of 2016 in The Intercept, is representative of this line of (un-)thinking. Scahill focuses specifically on Mike Pence, who would become the Vice President: “Pence’s ascent to the second most powerful…

The 17th anniversary of September 11, 2001 is upon us and the Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) at Ripon College had been planning a 9/11 project. Evidently, the school’s “Bias Protocol Board” is not too enthused over it. YAF’s “9/11: Never Forget Project,” which began 15 years ago, consists of 2,977 flags representing each life…

On its first anniversary, it is worth revisiting what we may now refer to simply as “Charlottesville.” Thanks to the assistance of Republican politicians and their apologists in Big Conservative media, the left didn’t hesitate to transform this event into an ideologically and politically-useful weapon. Of course, Charlottesville could serve the left’s agenda only if…

What is commonly referred to as “the conservative movement”—an alliance between Republican politicians and media polemicists—is what I call Big Conservatism, or the Big Con. The movers and shakers of the Big Con, though styling themselves as an alternative to the left are, in actuality, an alternative-left, the alt-left. That Big Conservatism is an alternative-left…
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