The removal of George W. Bush was not enough to cure what ails us. Thomas Edsall on how realignment was just an illusion. EJ Dionne on Obama's big mistake: Trying to bring the country together. Simon Schama on why Obama should play to populism. David Brooks on the populist addiction. Sam Tanenhaus on making sense of the new political anger. Right-wing flame war: Why are conservatives so freaked out by a blog called Little Green Footballs? Ben McGrath on the rise of Tea Party activism. Unify the new American tea party? An attempt to solidify the tea party movement with a convention is now looking like it could backfire. How to avoid another Waco: Keeping the peace in the 10-year standoff with the armed family compound of John Joe Gray. The Montana group Celebrating Conservatism demands local leaders boot Feds, form militia, protect guns. A very American coup: Coming soon to a hometown near you. A review of David Neiwert's The Eliminationists: How Hate Talk Racialized the American Right. From HNN, a new symposium on Jonah Goldberg's Liberal Fascism, including an introduction by David Neiwert and contributions by Robert Paxton, Roger Griffin, Matthew Feldman, Chip Berlet and Michael Ledeen (and more). From Socialism and Democracy, a special issue (2008) on US fascism, including Steve Martinot (SFSU): The Question of Fascism in the United States; Jonathan Scott (BMCC): Why Fascism When They Have White Supremacy?; and Douglas Greene on The Bourgeois Origins of Fascist Repression: On Robert Paxton’s The Anatomy of Fascism. From Studies in Social Justice, Mark Neocleous (Brunel): The Fascist Moment: Security, Exclusion, Extermination. David Art on what to read on fascism. It is Facebook for the fascist set, and the typical profiles reveal expected tastes.
