L. Benjamin Rolsky
@LBRolsky
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RISE AND FALL OF THE RELIGIOUS LEFT USIH @Ideas_History/@IUPUI Community Scholar + @RutgersCCA Words: @ReligPolitics @MadebyHistory @LAReviewofBooks @CNNOpinion
New Jersey, USA
Joined December 2015
On Quinn Slobodian's latest for the @LAReviewofBooks and how we study the relationship between the Alt Right and American neoliberalism since the 1990s. "The sooner we stop intellectually profiling the Right and its myriad complexities, the better." https://t.co/tN0fqXxTXF
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L. Benjamin Rolsky explores Quinn Slobodian’s “Hayek’s Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right.”
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This is the interview Donald Trump didn’t want you to see. His FCC refused to air my interview with Stephen Colbert. Trump is worried we’re about to flip Texas.
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This just arrived. An intro written by @dbessner and an afterword by @samuelmoyn = the true meaning of abundance.
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@Tyler_A_Harper No scholar-activists believe there is such a thing as apolitical scholarship. Embracing 'activism' is about being self-reflexive about the role of politics in one's research.
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Who thought it was a good idea to get Dee from Sunny to solve crimes with Carla from Scrubs?? Holy hell.
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Out now - Politics after the end of the end of history Hyperpolitics: Extreme Politicization without Political Consequences by Anton Jäger https://t.co/lUj4KSKvRy
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What happens when politics is everywhere, yet nothing seems to change? From the abandoned dance floors of Thatcher’s London to the mass mobilizations of Black Lives Matter, Anton Jäger traces how...
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They called it the Oscar Gamble @RealMichaelKay 🤣🤣🤣
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Very proud to have contributed a paper "What Does Fascism Look Like in the 21st Century?" for this swell collection https://t.co/tgmNQGZ7gn
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The world has changed since the 1930s, but human nature has not. What can we learn when comparing far-right populism in the United States to far-right populi...
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Same with Walsh
If @Tyler_A_Harper was actually a Marxist he'd be writing about this, not how Mellon finds Shakespeare research. But he's not. He's a shill for laundering right wing ideas into the liberal mainstream.
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my book is included in the verso sale so you can preorder my book with 20% off! what a bargain! save those pennies and fill your bookshelves! https://t.co/yVV7bkNWed
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“Cultural Marxism” is one of the far right’s favorite buzzwords. But despite its currency, the meaning and origins of the term are rarely investigated. This book uncovers the bizarre story of the...
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One of the best things about Tyler's Atlantic piece is it's revealing which part of the left is loyal to the Mellon Foundation above all else.
Wow. What a waste of a year.
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And before anyone brings up Messengers of the Right that's a history book
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Four essential but rarely engaged books on the Right in America that deploy interdisciplinary methods in order to understand their respective conservative subjects. In general, I think we need much less history, and much more media and studies of popular culture both high and low
Great four books for understanding the history of the current american right
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Sounds like Slobodian 🤦
Forthcoming from Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor: “A scathing investigation into the apocalyptic thinking of the Christian nationalists, tech-bro reactionaries, and populist survivalists who increasingly define the contemporary right”: https://t.co/CGrpR7zbht
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Hard to disagree
This was my first and last engagement with this outrage merchant, that he continues to promote outrage and has a platform for that, speaks to the low quality of contemporary "public intellectuals"
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If you criticize Tyler Austin Harper all the fascist-adjacent white boy tenured snowflakes come out of the woodwork, and the western chauvinist bots too, in case anyone was still unsure about his politics.
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