And it’s a dangerous delusion to misclassify it as such.
Altercation
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Altercation: Fox News Keeps Getting Foxier
Like right-wing politicians, they’re primarily interested in catering to the most extreme parts of their base.
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
Altercation: Race, Vietnam, and the New Left in Mid-Century
George Scialabba discusses the limits of Louis Menand’s new tome on America in the Cold War era.
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Altercation: Why Journalism Isn’t Really Covering the Threat of Fascism
Objectivity has no bias in favor of the truth.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Altercation: The Piketty Impact
On the economic-inequality discussion, profound. On capitalism per se, not so much.
Posted inPolitics
Altercation: Court Says Bill Barr Lied. Why Didn’t the Media?
Also, who quotes Elliott Abrams as an authority on human rights?
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Altercation: Paid to Lie
On the boundless and hugely remunerative cynicism of Rupert Murdoch and his faux-news fabricators
Posted inPolitics
Altercation: Damn the Author, but Don’t Cancel the Book
On the new, deficient Philip Roth biography and the apparently sociopathic biographer
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Altercation: Celebrating Ellsberg at 90 and DeGrom at Just One
The stories of the guy who snitched on Dan, and the Mets who still can’t hit