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In today’s episode, Coyle and Ed talk about the burgeoning Alt-Right movement that came to prominence with Donald Trump’s successful election, and that continues to manifest itself in explosions of white nationalist violence, most recently in Charlottesville, Virginia. Coyle and Ed talk about what the alt-right is, and how much of a problem they really are. They also talk a little bit about the removal of Confederate monuments and the state of race in the United States.
Books/Readings mentioned in the episode:
- The Breitbart article on the Alt-Right
- The Quillette article on the Alt-Right
- The Atlantic article on Richard Spencer
- Mitch Landrieu on the removal of monuments in New Orleans
Two more articles relevant to the discussion:
An article on Antifa from the Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/made-by-history/wp/2017/08/16/who-are-the-antifa/?utm_term=.95796e38931f
An article by a friend of Ed’s on the Charlottesvile protests: https://medium.com/@willisjenkins/moral-trauma-f4c17866ad8c