Alt Right

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  11/7/2022
  

  Controversial Stanford "Academic Freedom" Panel Proceeds

  "While many other speakers described higher education’s commitment to the pursuit of truth as fading, the conference was heavy on anecdotes and speculative diagnostics relative to clear data."

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• SOURCE: Perspectives on History
  2/17/2022
  

  American Antisemitism and Nationalism in the Charlottesville Verdict

  by Victoria Saker Woeste

  The awarding of $25 million in damages from the organizers of the Unite the Right rally to nine people injured in the violence are not enough of a penalty to stop the political mobilization of antisemitism in the new white nationalist coalition.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  11/12/2019
  

  The key to defeating the far right’s online hate

  by Michelle Kelley

  “History provides lessons on how to pit popular culture against Internet hate speech and racist propaganda.”

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  10-9-18
  

  A classicist objects to the classics being used to justify misogyny

  In her new book Donna Zuckerberg explains how the Alt-Right have adopted the classics and why.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  1-6-18
  

  The Alt-Right’s Asian Fetish

  by Audrea Lim

  How the 'Model minority" myth blends with racist ideology.

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• SOURCE: New Republic
  10-25-17
  

  University History Departments Have a Race Problem

  by Josephine Livingstone

  The alt right is appropriating medieval studies and classical scholarship. What can academics do to stop them?

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• 9-10-17
  

  Lessons from German History after Charlottesville

  by Jeffrey Herf

  What we do  –  and do not  –  have to worry about.

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• 8-13-17
  

  No, Mr. President. This Is Not an Issue with “Many Sides”

  by Ed Simon

  Once again Donald Trump caters to the white racists who helped elect him.

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• SOURCE: Salon
  12-8-16
  

  Salon suggests Paul Gottfried, "a retired Jewish political historian,” was a founder of the Alt-Right

  It was Gottfried who coined the term Alt-Right. (He also came up with Paleoconservative.)

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  11-23-16
  

  The seeds of the alt-right, America’s emergent right-wing populist movement

  by George Michael

  How did the movement gain traction in recent years? And now that Trump has won, could the alt-right change the American political landscape?