Wednesday, October 31, 2018

Un-mappable Fascism: What maps can (and can’t) explain about the Brazilian election



Brazil has been lobotomised twice in the last two months. In the first lobotomy on 2 September, the National Museum in Rio de Janeiro was burnt down, in a catastrophe directly attributable to the austerity policies of current president Michel Temer.

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Tuesday, October 30, 2018

Americans Strongly Dislike PC Culture



On social media, the country seems to divide into two neat camps: Call them the woke and the resentful. Team Resentment is manned—pun very much intended—by people who are predominantly old and almost exclusively white.

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Et Tu, BrutesDonna Zuckerberg on How Misogyny Red-Pilled the Classics



When the Red Pillers—online communities of far-right, anti-feminist men—need to back up their misogynist and racist claims, they look to Ovid, Euripides, or the Stoics.

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