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In fact, the more the New Right’s ideology is dismissed by the progressive mainstream culture as stupid and crazy, the more appealing it seems to the marginalized—and as soon as one of their ideas seems reasonable, just one, then the whole tactic of blanket dismissal falls apart.

The New Right seeks to discredit and obliterate the power of the corporate press. “My goal is to destroy the New York Times and CNN—and not just them,” Andrew Breitbart once explicitly said.

Conspiracy theories, as we have seen, are both symptoms of confusion and powerlessness and tools of division and distraction that benefit elites.

‘liberal humanism’ or simply as ‘liberalism’.*

Whereas liberalism merged with the milder versions of nationalism to protect the unique experiences of each human community, evolutionary humanists such as Hitler identified particular nations as the engines of human progress,

twenty-first-century science is undermining the foundations of the liberal order.

some Marxists even became convinced that new forms of what they called “immaterial labor”—founded in marketing, entertainment, and the digital economy but spilling outside as well into our increasingly brand-saturated, iPhone-happy daily lives—had become the new locus of value creation—leading to prophecies of the eventual rebellion of the digital

The reality is that members of the American left have, whether they like it or not, become the new conservatives. At least in economic policy, they are usually the defenders of the status quo. In contrast, some of the so-called “conservatives” are the radicals seeking major change; at a recent public event, I heard two African American intellectual