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The Year the Clock Broke | John Ganz

The Year the Clock Broke | John Ganz

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Opinion | Trump's New Target in the Politics of Fear: Citizenship

Opinion | Trump's New Target in the Politics of Fear: Citizenship

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Killing Democracy to Save It - Los Angeles Review of Books

Killing Democracy to Save It - Los Angeles Review of Books

THE FATE OF the Weimar Republic has a hold on the modern political imagination second only to the French Revo…

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Opinion | Why We Are So Vulnerable to Charlatans Like Trump

Opinion | Why We Are So Vulnerable to Charlatans Like Trump

It's impossible to characterize a historical period before it's over, but I think one plausible name for our …

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The Decline of The New Criterion | John Ganz

The Decline of The New Criterion | John Ganz

It's one of the pathetic and touching pieties of liberals in America: the belief in the Noble Conservative. M…

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The Forgotten Man | John Ganz

The Forgotten Man | John Ganz

John Maynard Keynes, toward the end of his 1936 The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money, wrote,…

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John Ganz: Trump’s Coalition of the Aggrieved

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By Tim Miller Verified, John Ganz Verified
| The Bulwark Verified
The era of hell that we are living through may have been ordained in the 90s by angry Republican voters who felt screwed by the corporate elite—and political leaders who didn’t represent them. Trump watched Pat Buchanan and David Duke and saw how their protectionist, anti-immigrant, culture war messaging was resonating. More recently, Trump returned to his New York wheeler-dealer vibe by getting us in a war because he needed to look strong after SCOTUS struck down his stupid tariffs.
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Graham Platner is a Type of Guy

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By John Ganz Verified
| Unpopular Front
What I find very frustrating about politics is that it forces you to pretend you’re stupid. Case in point: Graham Platner’s Totenkopf tattoo—we’re supposed to believe he didn’t know what it was when he got it. Come the fuck on. First of all, the guy is an edgelordy Reddit autodidact type with a lot of opinions. This is precisely the demographic that knows all about militaria and WWII history.
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Why the Clock Broke: America in an Age of Crisis

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By John Ganz Verified
| Unpopular Front
Below is the text of my March 26th lecture at King’s College London. A special thank you to Steven Klein and Loubna El Amine of the Department of Political Economy for hosting me. And thank you, of course, to everyone who attended! As the talk was not recorded, this is the only documentation.
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