The New Medievals
The bones of our conspiracies haven’t changed, though their details are different.
Claire Lehmann
· 7 min read
Alt-Right
A collection of 15 posts
Stop Sensationalizing the Threat of Right-Wing Political Violence
Terrorism is ultimately a weapon of the weak. By engaging in threat inflation, we expand the power and prestige of terrorists by allowing them to be more influential than they otherwise might be.
Zaid Jilani
· 7 min read
Podcast #121: The Inconvenient Truth About Donald Trump’s Non-White Supporters
A conversation with Jamil Jivani.
Quillette
· 1 min read
‘Nobody Likes the Other Guy’: On the Road With Donald Trump’s Diehards
There were a lot of Hispanic people there, which seems an underreported story.
Stephen Elliott
· 20 min read
Are Gamer Stereotypes Accurate?
An FBI investigation into the episode produced a heavily redacted report that satisfied no one.
Christopher J. Ferguson
· 8 min read
Arresting the White Backlash
Moving beyond the populist moment would provide space for a more honest and necessary conversation about questions relating to white identity.
Samuel Kronen
· 9 min read
The Globalisation of Ethnonationalism
Art and ideas that had been dreamed up on one side of the world could reach and change people on the other.
Ben Sixsmith
· 7 min read
The Pitfalls of Too Much Security
Yet, there is reason for concern that this progress could be endangered if Jews overreact to the attack in Pittsburgh.
Gideon Scopes
· 10 min read
Behind the Mask — Inside the Black Bloc
Naps explained the color-coded, three-tiered categorization of antifa participants in the black bloc, the massive swarm of black-clothed marchers.
Thomas Spoelhof
· 9 min read
What the Alt-Right and the Regressive Left Have in Common
They encourage each other with increasing zeal to root out heretics, and wage war against infidels. True believers do not welcome skeptics.
Jonathan Anomaly
· 7 min read
What the Alt-Right Gets Wrong About Jews
To understand the alt-right’s anti-Semitism, we must understand MacDonald’s ideas, particularly as outlined in his most influential book, The Culture of Critique.
Jonathan Anomaly, Nathan Cofnas
· 10 min read
The Failed Hero's Journey
A failed hero is a young person who finds that chaos insurmountable, and is swallowed by its overwhelming force.
Alexander Blum
· 7 min read
Kill All Normies — Online Culture Wars and the Rise of the Alt-Right: Review
Kill All Normies is merely a good start in need of deeper research, broader connections, clearer argumentation, and a great deal of editing.
Oliver Traldi
· 17 min read
Paranoid Paleoconservatives
Trump’s populist campaign has energized a political fringe tendency now known as the alt-right.
Jamie Palmer
· 23 min read
The Social Justice Left and the Alt-Right: Our Divided New World
Ben Sixsmith
· 4 min read