War Fighters and the Enemy Within: Trump, Hegseth, and the Assault on the American People
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.
Alan Elrod
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.
Charlie Kirk, Martyrdom, and America’s Authoritarian Apostles
The entanglement of fascist politics and Christian imagery is not new, and it is dangerously powerful.
MAGA Is Revising the Past to Create the Future They Want
They are aiming to build the future they want by rewriting history.
Yes, It’s the Guns. It’s Also the Phones.
Life online is corroding the virtues that make liberal democratic life tenable.
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Neon Liberalism #42: The Spectacle of Cruelty
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
Let It Burn: What an Immigration Raid on Washington Firefighters Can Teach Us About MAGA Fascism
MAGA is not merely rule by the worst but an active assault on virtue wherever it exists.
Degenerate Nation: RFK Jr’s Far-Right Disease Prevention
RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine agenda is of a piece with Trump's nativist, Darwinian politics.
Adoption, Belonging, and the Question of Citizenship
Adoptees are proof of the cruelty and carelessness at the heart of Trump’s assault on birthright citizenship.
Scott Jennings in the Hyperreal and the Myth of the Escape Hatch
Jennings is like a simulation of a Trump enabler.
Inherent Vice: Can America Come Back From Who We’ve Become?
At the richest moment in world history, in an unparalleled time of comforts and luxuries, we have elected self-harm and self-pity.
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Neon Liberalism #23: The Porn Brain of the New Right
Content warning: rape, pedophilia, and historical atrocities. Join Samantha and guest Alan Elrod as they talk about the role of rape in conservative ideology, biopolitics as the Rosetta Stone of authoritarian reaction, and the pornographic fantasies that pervade the new right. Alan is the president and CEO of the Pulaski
Children Are the Future: Authoritarianism, Culture War, and Making Model Citizens
MAGA’s approach to young Americans is about creating adherents and eliminating undesirables.