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Get Issue 17 here. Hezbollah in Paraguay, America’s big post-Cold War mistakes, a kitchen wunderkind, and more.
Also by Michael Lind
Three Big Questions That the American Establishment Got Wrong
Who benefited from the obvious nonsense that became post-Cold War America’s trade, foreign, and federal deficit policies?
The End of Progressive Intellectual Life
How the Foundation-NGO complex quashed innovative thinking and open debate, first on the American right and now on the center-left
We are living in a material world, after all
Having converted their own republic into a borderless credit union, Americans have to borrow other people’s national pride
The Borscht Belt Theory of Immigration
The U.S. immigration system is a farce—and such small portions!
How American Progressives Became French Jacobins
The iconoclastic gestures of the woke left bear an alarming resemblance to the excesses of the French Revolution
The Strange Career of Paul Krugman
How a trash-talking neoliberal economist harmed America by vilifying strategic trade and industrial policy
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On Replacement Theory
The Gay French Poet Behind the Alt-Right’s Favorite Catch Phrase
Renaud Camus, whose theory of a ‘great replacement’ is echoed by white nationalists and mass killers, was once a disciple of the literary theorist Roland Barthes
BY BRUNO CHAOUAT
A Visit With Jean Raspail, Creator of ‘The Great Replacement’ Theory
Interview with the former Boy Scout and writer of ‘The Camp of the Saints’
BY MARC WEITZMANN
Why anti-Semitism and conspiratorial theories claiming that ‘Black people are the “real Jews”’ thrive in a time of racial reckoning
BY JOHN-PAUL PAGANO
Berenice, the Jewish Queen of Rome, and the Origins of Replacement Theory
How fear that a single Jew could transform Western society into a Jewish empire led to a broader anti-Semitism
BY FREDRIC BRANDFON
How Jewish obsolescence as described by the early Christian church echoes in contemporary anti-Zionism
BY JON D. LEVENSON
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