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Jason Zengerle’s new book about the degradation of a once-gifted writer and broadcaster also illustrates the downward trajectory of the entire news industry during the same period.
The foreign origins of Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson’s antisemitism.
Online audiences have become increasingly radicalised by predatory algorithms pushing conspiratorial, schizophrenic narratives and content creators are rewarded for feeding into them.
The culture war alone cannot explain the civic rot on the populist Right.
Tucker Carlson’s fawning interview with Vladimir Putin shows that he will never pose a threat to despotism.
Putin’s Western apologists don’t reflect the usual conflict between Left and Right—but rather comprise an example of both poles making common cause against the center.