The Texan Ideology | Fred Turner
A generation ago, “tech” was a stand alone and self-contained industry. Today, it has become the digital infrastructure of both the private and public sector. Most concerning, its stock value now functions as a quasi-reserve asset that upholds the entire US economy. Ensuring the inflated value of these tech stocks has become a political and... See more
Among the people streaming into Falwell’s Thomas Road Baptist Church were large numbers of Appalachian transplants. Having left rural America for new opportunities, these blue-collar migrants were searching for new forms of community and identity. They brought with them a culture of militarism (and perhaps also a suspicion of “outsiders”) that some
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