Chris Christie’s new book joins the throng of post-Trump tell-alls
Remember Chris Christie? Former governor of New Jersey? Ran for president? Was head of the transition team for Donald Trump? Not ringing any bells? Well, now you can get a… Read more »
Steve Bannon is confronted in a Virginia bookstore
Confronting fascists publicly is a key move in the antifascist playbook. In the last few weeks we’ve seen exciting actions like a restaurant refusing service to a propagator of lies, or a mom… Read more »
Donald Trump trying to halt publication of Michael Wolff’s new book is the best conceivable thing for Michael Wolff’s new book
I don’t know much about 2018—not yet, anyway—but I know this: it’s going to be fucking exhausting. I can tell it’s going to be exhausting because, well, it already is. Day five.… Read more »
Two forthcoming books to help make sense of Trump, Bannon, and Breitbart
Yesterday, Steve Bannon, the former head of Breitbart and oft-supposed 3D chess master of the steadily imploding Trump administration, was relieved of his position on the National Security Council, given to him by… Read more »
Amazon and Breitbart, sittin’ in a tree
We’ve had a lot of bad things to say about Amazon over the years—consummately, they’re fuckers—but we have not, until now, had much cause to bemoan their connection to white supremacy. Welcome… Read more »
Breitbart, allegedly facing advertising woes, could become more insidious
Efforts to push companies to pull their advertising dollars from Breitbart seem to actually be working. In the past week, various reports have come out to indicate that the boycott… Read more »
Steve Bannon’s favorite author weighs in
What do you say to a guy who invented the most overused word in the English language, gave the flunkies of American fascism their talking points, and still can’t quite make… Read more »
Iran gives the World Award for Book of the Year to Mohammad Hashim Kamali’s The Middle Path of Moderation
The Middle Path Of Moderation by Mohammad Hashim Kamali has been awarded one of Iran’s most prestigious literary prizes, the World Award for Book of the Year. The award was… Read more »
Right-wing thinker is getting recognized more and more, I notice
Looking for an in to the crummiest reading group of all time? Name dropping Julius Evola just may earn you that seat at the intellectual kids’ table with Milo Yiannopoulos, Richard Spencer, and… Read more »
We’re all sick of “fake news,” but with Trump and his goons in charge, we need to keep talking about it, and librarians are leading the way
On February 6, Donald Trump woke up and tweeted out what may be the purest distillation yet of his definition of “fake news”: “Any negative polls are fake news, just… Read more »