Alan Elrod is the president & CEO of the Pulaski Institution, an Arkansas-based think tank. He is also a columnist and Contributing Editor at Liberal Currents and an adjunct instructor at Arkansas State University-Beebe.
The very parts of American culture that claim to promote teen abstinence and sexual purity operate on a parallel logic to the rape culture that enables the darkest misogynistic violence against women.
The backlash against Trump's proposal reveals the characteristics of his base's reactionary housing politics.
The far right takes losses at the ballot box as evidence that women do not deserve their rights.
Trump, the tacky and chronically bankrupt real estate developer, and Hitler, the failed artist who was too bad at math to try his hand at architecture school, are alike in at least these ways. A love of grand projects papers over fundamental inadequacies.
The group chat leak reveals what over a decade of incel messaging and Bronze Age Pervert have done to Young Republicans.
How mystics and transhumanists force the dead to speak on behalf of their politics.
Our language has to meet the moment, and we have to be relentless about dispelling the fiction MAGA is selling.
Trump and Hegseth are cultivating a military that sees liberals and minorities as enemies to be fought and is willing to follow orders to do so.
The entanglement of fascist politics and Christian imagery is not new, and it is dangerously powerful.
They are aiming to build the future they want by rewriting history.
Life online is corroding the virtues that make liberal democratic life tenable.
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Join Samantha and guest Alan Elrod, president and CEO of the Pulaski Institution, as they talk about how the spectacle of deliberate cruelty—troops on the streets, deportations of firefighters, the public performance of vileness—is not an accident or a distraction, but is a core part of the Trumpian