Alt-Right

Some Thoughts on Charlottesville

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Like many people, I’ve been very upset by the events in Charlottesville over the last weekend. Like many people, I feel like a should do something, but I also feel impotent. And, like many people, I’ve seen lots of think-pieces and articles about how we should respond to these events by speaking up online. However, … Read more

Irony and the Organic Intellectuals of the Alt-Right

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I first stumbled across the term “alt-right” during my dissertation research in 2014, specifically as I was slogging through the thousands of threads and comments about GamerGate. A variety of alt-right Twitter figures and bloggers became regular names to me and I was often struck by their strong reliance on anti-intellectual opinion leaders who thrived … Read more