Thierry Baudet once called politicians brain-dead. Now his upstart white nationalist movement has eclipsed Geert Wilders and won more Senate seats than the prime minister’s party.
Baudet’s rise, with the help of a naive Dutch media class, is the most recent example of how the far-right is gaining power in Europe. https://t.co/PfEI6gKJoG
BREAKING: The House Oversight and Reform Committee is demanding 10 years of Donald Trump’s financial records from an accounting firm, according to two Republicans on the panelhttps://t.co/fb8A5piPgi
In 2007, the crime-riddled nation of Ecuador did something surprising: It legalized the gangs that had been the source of much of the violence. Then something even more surprising happened over the next decade: Murder rates plummeted.
Chen Qiufan attends Burning Man. I like the idea of Chinese intellectuals going to take a look at American institutions and writing up what they find:https://t.co/xx65zAzN9a
When "family values" conservatives complain about the influence of "Hollywood liberals" and "the liberal media", this is what they mean. And they are not wrong that it can help usher along culture change. Far more than many protests or the like, which can produce counter-productive blowback.
The European parliament adopted a strict law requiring technology platforms to sign licensing agreements with musicians, authors and news publishers.
It is meant to force tech firms to be aggressive about removing unlicensed copyrighted material from their websites rather than waiting for complaints.
It occurred to me again recently that people don’t know how little we make. My last NYTBR review paid 300 dollars. I had a cover piece in 2014 that paid 600. I read the books i review carefully & often read other works by that same author to understand their whole trajectory.
In an hour or two, I’m going to be attacked by a right-wing mob. It’s source will be Turning Point USA and Breitbart. If you’re interested in seeing how these folks weaponize the internet against college professors, here’s some information:
MOSCOW -- Late last month, Culture Minister Vladimir Medinsky set off alarm bells among culture aficionados when he sent a letter to regional administrations ordering them to bring the museums in their purview into line with "the state's priorities."
