Max Holleran
Max Holleran reviews 'Fortress America: How we embraced fear and abandoned democracy' by Elaine Tyler May
Max Holleran
Thursday, 26 April 2018
On a Saturday afternoon shortly before Christmas in 1984, Bernhard Goetz was riding the New York City subway. Goetz, who is white, was approached by four black screwdriver-wielding teenagers who asked him for five dollars. Goetz drew a 0.38 pistol from his jacket and shot each of the boys once, then turned to one of them ...
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Published in
May 2018, no. 401
Max Holleran reviews 'Democracy in Chains: The deep history of the radical right’s stealth plan' for America by Nancy MacLean
Max Holleran
Thursday, 07 December 2017
On 12 August 2017 a mob of neo-Nazis descended on the campus of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, chanting racial epithets while openly carrying rifles and pistols. Many of the participants were from groups that advocate not just racial supremacy but the end of the US federal government, which they see as tyrannical ...
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Published in
December 2017, no. 397