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Jeff Sharlet

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Patriotic Education and the End of History

Or, a brief history of today's erasure of history.

by Jeff Sharlet via Scenes from a Slow Civil War on January 30, 2025
The Terrifying Familiarity of the Buffalo Shooting Suspect’s Extremist Screed

The new fascists don’t wear uniforms; they make memes.

by Jeff Sharlet via The Hive on May 17, 2022
‘Patriotic Education’ Is How White Supremacy Survives

No, Trump can’t rewrite school curriculums himself, but a thousand mini-Trumps on the nation’s school boards can.

by Jeff Sharlet via Gen on September 21, 2020

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A sign left behind by Trump supporters at a rally outside the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California, September 27, 2023.

American Fascism

On how Europe’s interwar period informs the present.

by Rick Perlstein via The American Prospect on January 24, 2024

Illustration of Q-Anon vigilantes climbing an electrified letter Q.

QAnon Is the Latest American Conspiracy Theory

The rise of the right-wing paranoid fantasy, egged on by Donald Trump and Marjorie Taylor Greene, reflects deep currents in American politics.

by Chris Lehmann via The Nation on February 6, 2023

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