Unearthing the Deep Fascist Roots of the Unite the Right Rally

A roundup of TNR's culture reporting

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A roundup of TNR's culture reporting

View in browser The Conservative Intellectual Who Laid the Groundwork for Trump William F. Buckley Jr. was the erudite heart of American conservatism. But the political vision that he helped forge was—and remains today—focused less on adhering to principles and more on ferreting out enemies. By Jack McCordick   Court Battles: A SCOTUS Update With so many major decisions coming down—with implications for the role of religion in public life, efforts to restrict gender-affirming care, gerrymandering—not to mention the serious threat to our Constitution, there's a lot to unpack.    Join us on July 2 to analyze and discuss the end-of-session Supreme Court rulings and their legal and political ramifications. RSVP RSVP Catherine Lacey's Disappointing Fusion of Fiction and Memoir The Möbius Book explores love, faith, and cliché—​but its experiments in form don't live up to their promise. By Lily Meyer Why We Can't Quit Our Y2K Obsessions Alice Bolin's essay collection, Culture Creep, interrogates the preoccupation with 2000s-era icons and aesthetics—and how it prevents us from engaging with their more noxious elements. By Kate Mabus Inside the Predatory World of Multilevel Marketing Is MLM a massive scam or an all-American business tradition—or both? By Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein What subscribers are reading: Alex Karp's War for the West By Jack McCordick Nathan Fielder's The Rehearsal Takes Flight By Phillip Maciak The Anti-Trump Movement Finds Its Rebellious Muse: Andor By Ana Marie Cox From Los Angeles to Libby, Montana: How Americans Protested King Trump By Stephanie Heimann Celine Song's Materialists Tries to Subvert the Rom-Com The filmmaker's follow-up to Past Lives is cerebral and frank about wealth and romance. By Phoebe Chen What America Made of Marx Tracing the leftist icon's influence on the history of the United States By Michael Kazin The July/August Issue Is Available Now Read now Read now Yiyun Li's Unsparing Memoir of Life After Two Sons' Suicides In Things in Nature Merely Grow, the Chinese-American author writes past grief's clichés. By Jane Hu Wes Anderson's The Phoenician Scheme Embraces the Modest Pleasures It's also a rollicking not-quite thriller about family, financing, and (broadly) filmmaking itself. By Adam Nayman Unearthing the Deep Fascist Roots of the Unite the Right Rally By Lily Meyer On August 11, 2017, hundreds of white supremacists carrying tiki torches mobbed the University of Virginia's campus, shouting racist and antisemitic slogans and violently attacking the students who stood up to them. The next day, the same hateful crowd rallied in a Charlottesville park that held a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee. The city of Charlottesville had recently engaged in a public debate over whether to get rid of the statue, and supposedly the white supremacists were there—summoned by a number of neo-Nazis, chief among them Richard Spencer, and a local racist troll named Jason Kessler—to defend it. Really, they had come to court attention and cause harm. They succeeded on both fronts. Their event, called Unite the Right, became national news when they swarmed the UVA campus, chanting, "Jews will not replace us." (This had what to do with Robert E. Lee?) It became a national tragedy when, on August 12, James Alex Fields Jr., who kept a framed photo of Hitler by his bed, rammed his car into a crowd of counterprotesters, injuring several and killing 32-year-old Heather Heyer. Continue reading this article. Trump Is Suddenly Raging at Tucker Carlson—and MAGA Is Deeply Rattled Is opposition to "forever wars" really a core pillar of MAGA Republicanism? Looks like we're about to find out. By Greg Sargent Read now Read now  Update your personal preferences for comercialyventas.aliperiodicos@blogger.com by clicking here.    Our mailing address is: The New Republic, 1 Union Sq W Fl 6 , NY , New York, NY 10003-3303, United States   Do you want to stop receiving all emails from Culture?  Unsubscribe from this list. If you stopped getting TNR emails, update your profile to resume receiving them.