Part 7 of a 10-part Series: The Unholy Alliance Between Socio-economic Elites and White Christian Nationalism …the religious right has become more focused and powerful even as it is arguably less representative. It is not a social or cultural movement. It is a political movement, and its ultimate goal is power.” Katherine Stewart, The Power […]
Month: January 2023
A Butterfly Flaps Its Wings: From the Powell Memo to the Eastman Memo and January 6th
Part 6 of a 10-part Series: The Double-edged Sword of Populism There has always been in our national experience a type of mind which elevates hatred to a kind of creed…For this mind, group hatreds take a place in politics similar to the class struggle in some other modern societies. “ Richard Hofstadter, 1963, Anti-Intellectualism […]
A Butterfly Flaps Its Wings: From the Powell Memo to the Eastman Memo and January 6th
Part 5 of a 10-part Series: Big Money and the Corporatocracy Captures the Media Indeed, whether such extreme inequality is or is not sustainable depends not only on the effectiveness of the repressive apparatus but also, and perhaps primarily, on the apparatus of justification.” Thomas Piketty, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, (2014) Gaining a stranglehold on […]
