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DISPATCHES FROM THE CULTURE WARS – NOVEMBER 8, 2022  
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November 8, 2022
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_ Why we should always talk politics at the dinner table _

A political cartoon from 2015. Credit, David Horsey/Los Angeles Times


 

* History Forecasted Fascism
* A World Series Without African Americans
* Always Talk Politics at the Dinner Table
* Sex Scandal of the Week
* The 0.1%
* Mike Davis in LA
* Shakespeare Still Matters
* SCOTUS and Native Children’s Rights
* Tom Paxton at 85
* Elite Impunity

HISTORY FORECASTED FASCISM
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By Chuck Idelson
Common Dreams

Despite the efforts of some Democrats to normalize the historic trend
favoring the minority party in midterms, the code blue alarm bells
this year have a chillingly different resonance. Warning signs are
everywhere.

A WORLD SERIES WITHOUT AFRICAN AMERICANS
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By Shalise Manza Young
Yahoo! Sports

Major League Baseball has recorded an ignominious bit of history: for
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time since 1950, there likely won't be a single American-born Black
player on either roster. For Philadelphia especially, it's a stark
change from the last time the Phillies were in the World Series in
2008, when they won with two Black, MVP-winning infielders in Jimmy
Rollins and Ryan Howard.

ALWAYS TALK POLITICS AT THE DINNER TABLE
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By Carly Koppes
Ms.

The ballot is our greatest equalizer. It is how we can give everyone
an equal voice and an equal impact on our government. But that is only
true if people show up to the polls, cast their vote and trust the
results. When election workers are threatened and unsafe, it
threatens the whole process. 

SEX SCANDAL OF THE WEEK
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By Christopher T. Conner
Salon

The notion that there is some kind of crisis of masculinity, that
there is a war against men, even – has become dogma among a certain
subset of the right. Holding up this claim are half-truths,
pseudo-science, and misogynistic beliefs. This is connected to the
rise of “incel” culture.

THE 0.1%
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By Rick Baum
CounterPunch

In 2019, to gain entry into the wealthiest .1% of residents of the
United States required one to be worth over $43 million, which was
about three and a half times the entry point of $11.1 million for the
wealthiest 1%.

MIKE DAVIS WAS RIGHT
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By Alissa Walker
New York Magazine

Davis, who died of complications from esophageal cancer recently at
76, served as both the reluctant prognosticator-in-chief for L.A.
and a guide to the overlapping urban crises that now cascade across
U.S. cities with alarming frequency.

SHAKESPEARE STILL MATTERS
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By Geoff Johnson
Times Colonist

New Zealand Arts Council denied funding to a high school Shakespeare
festival in part because it was “located within a canon of
imperialism,” but a close examination of his work shows the Bard
himself was no fan of imperialism.

SCOTUS AND THE RIGHTS OF NATIVE CHILDREN
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By Mark Joseph Stern
Slate

After greenlighting countless laws diminishing tribal sovereignty, the
Supreme Court could soon strike down a law attempting to enhance it.
And the court may do so on the basis of history that is not just
dubious but objectively false, rooted in a mistaken theory about the
Founders’ vision for relations with Native tribes that has been
conclusively debunked.

TOM PAXTON AT 85
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By Thom Duffy
Billboard

Bob Dylan “is usually cited as the founder of the New Song movement,
and he certainly became its most visible standard-bearer, but the
person who started the whole thing was Tom Paxton,” wrote the late
folk pioneer Dave Van Ronk in his memoir _The Mayor of MacDougal
Street_.

ELITE IMPUNITY [[link removed]]
By Trevor Jackson
The Baffler

Continued liberal panic over the danger of Trump’s “Big Lie”
feeds the proleptic fear that the 2024 election will itself be stolen.
Justifiable though that panic is, it obscures the point that our
current legitimacy crisis has been unfolding for decades.

* Fascism
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* baseball
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* MLB
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* African Americans
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* World Series
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* the super-rich
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* Electoral Politics
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* incels
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* masculinity
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* Mike Davis
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* William Shakespeare
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* Supreme Court
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* Native Americans
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* Tom Paxton
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* legitimacy crisis
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