Fed up with DEI and seemingly unaware that the federal government is already dismantling any institution it deems too woke, a segment of the far right is ready to take their ball and go homestead.
Henry Luzzatto writes on white-supremacist separatist colonies like Return to the Land, which is building a community of like-minded racists in the Arkansas wilderness—and appears shockingly easy to infiltrate. Speaking of racial backlash, Richard A. Greenwald describes the politics of humiliation driving people to cheer on the erosion of liberalism’s norms and institutions. And Aaron Timms explains how the resulting violence translates—or doesn’t—onto the silver screen in recent films like Eddington and One Battle After Another.
Elsewhere, Ben Miller considers why queer theory is in its flop era, and reviews a new book that offers a viable course correction. And in our new issue, Gabriel Winslow-Yost ventures through the world of Disco Elysium as rendered both in the game itself and the novel preceding it, where a fog of historic memory threatens to swallow anyone who ventures too deep.
“At last, after years of starchy public servants filling the top job, New York has found a mayor with the self-confidence to approach public office like it’s a bottomless brunch. And now that miraculous run is almost certainly coming to an end.”
“When a world dies, much dies alongside it. Ways of thinking, ways of building, ways of living so mundane no one noticed their presence or their passing.”
“Queer theory’s practitioners once pretended to be Robin Hoods redistributing the resources of the academy, but as Brim trenchantly points out, Robin Hood stole to give to the poor, not to himself, and wasn’t paid to do so.”
“Video games are almost always digressive, whether their designers want them to be or not, because players can’t be trusted. Given the slightest freedom, they’ll wander off, focus on side quests and minor details, avoid the main story entirely.”
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