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Gabriella Gómez-Mont.

Rob Hopkins • From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want

Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody

James A. Lindsay • 11 highlights

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1/ 2020 will see the dawn of the metatribe. Here is an ethnography.

Tyler Alterman

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Ayn Rand, also admired by Trump

Michiko Kakutani • The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump

The ideal of political change through imaginative transformation—the vision of the artist as an agent of social change—must be joined to a culture of collective dialogue to forge effective political transformation.

Micki McGee • Self-Help, Inc.: Makeover Culture in American Life

POWER: A woman's guide to living and leading without apology

Kemi Nekvapil

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he brought not just his showbiz sensibilities but his reality TV instincts into the Oval Office: a savant’s understanding of Americans’ hunger for “reality” over reality, for the outrageous, for the cruelty of Simon Cowell and the brazen individualism of “I’m not here to make friends.”

Lindy West • The Witches Are Coming

The subversion of this ideal is driven by accusations that the standards imposed by the fashion and cosmetics industries are Eurocentric or patriarchal; doing away with those standards is therefore a political act of anti-racism or feminism. In a similar way, goblin mode can be seen as a revolt against the standards of productivity and self-betterm... See more

the critic • The death of Ideals

When they introduce me at the UN, it feels more than polite, it feels fictious. The list of compliments. The clapping. I think other people need to believe that I can do good too.