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From Buckley to Trump, Conservatism Has Endured an Ugly Slide

Intellectual curiosity used to define the political right. Now, imbecility rules the day.

Reason

‘Liberal’ has become a term of derision in US politics – the historical reasons are complicated

Kevin M. Schultz is Chair of the Department of History at the University of Illinois Chicago, where he specialises in 20th- and 21st-century American history. In Why Everyone Hates White Liberals (Including White Liberals), he explores how the word liberal – and particularly its variant white liberal – became a…

The Conversation

The genteel, silver-tongued thinker who fathered US conservatism – and paved the way for Trump

A new biography digs into the life of William F Buckley Jr. Its author thinks the rightwing intellectual has some lessons for the left

The Guardian - US

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The sad decline of Gore Vidal, America’s most acerbic writer and fearsome feuder

THE READING LIST: As the world approaches the centenary of the celebrated novelist, television pundit and all-around man of letters, Martin Chilton recalls his greatest work, most withering putdowns, and chronicles a career that devolved into ‘crackpot’ conspiracy theories, illness and, perhaps most depressing of all, boredom

The Independent UK

The right’s 60-year war on education

Trump's attacks on elite universities echo the right-wing playbook Ronald Reagan created nearly six decades ago

Salon

The American Right Is Abandoning Mises

The Austrian economist's principled thought once served as a check on the intellectual right.

Reason

How the great US writer James Baldwin still influences Londoners today... from Little Simz to Ian Wright

Ahead of a season of films related to one of the 20th century’s most influential writers and thinkers, the programme’s curator looks at Baldwin’s relationship with the capital

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MAGA didn't come out of nowhere

Author David Austin Walsh says "respectable" conservatives have tolerated racists and neo-Nazis all along

Salon

"A blueprint for a Trump autocracy"

Will a second Trump term bring a Putin-like dictatorship or the more subtle example of Hungary's Viktor Orbán?

Salon

The Lesson of COVID-19: Don't Give Government More Power

The pandemic showed that America's founders were right to create a system of checks and balances that made it hard for leaders to easily have their way.

Reason

Party of the People review: Republican strength – and weakness – examined

Patrick Ruffini, a GOP pollster, soft-pedals abortion and insurrection but is sharp on his party’s working-class turn

The Guardian - US

The week in theatre: Debate, Black Superhero, Further than the Furthest Thing – review

An intimate venue brings Baldwin and Buckley’s clash back to life; Danny Lee Wynter falls foul of a caped crusader (and too much exposition); and an island is threatened by outsiders

The Guardian - UK

Playwright James Graham on his West End play Best of Enemies and the ‘crisis of goodness’ in our politics

The nicest man in British showbiz is livid at what he calls ‘an unforgivable collapse in standards’ in government

Evening Standard

Zachary Quinto: ‘There’s a tremendous fear around openly gay men in our industry’

The Star Trek actor talks to Louis Chilton about the ‘provocateur’ Ryan Murphy, how TV has damaged debate, and why he thinks democracy may not survive

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Zachary Quinto: ‘I have lost a certain faith in America’s system’

The Star Trek actor is making his West End debut in a play about the 1968 US TV political debates between Gore Vidal and William F Buckley. But he fears the pair’s fiery exchanges may be partly to blame for today’s polarised politics

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Reporters Without Orders Ep 233: Ramdev’s life and times, Yogi's unfulfilled promises to Hathras rape victim’s kin

Ayush Tiwari is joined by Newslaundry’s Nidhi Suresh and Basant Kumar.

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