Jeet Heer
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Cultural Criticism and AnalysisYesterday 5:00 am
Terry Teachout and the Last of the Conservative Critics
He was a generation younger than Joan Didion and her cohort of critics who got their start at National Review. With his death, their strain of criticism seems not only rare but perhaps extinct.
Jeet Heer
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The RightJanuary 10, 2022
When Will David Brooks Admit That Conservatism Paved the Way for Trump?
The New York Times columnist’s nostalgia whitewashes a nastier and much more consequential history.
Jeet Heer
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RepublicansNovember 29, 2021
The Republicans Have Become the Party of Organized Violence
Right now, the GOP views threats of violence as offering a political advantage with no real downside. Normalization of this behavior by President Biden or the media will only make it worse.
Jeet Heer
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Internet and New MediaOctober 18, 2021
Mark Zuckerberg Knows Exactly How Bad Facebook Is
Whistleblower testimony proves the social media giant is harmful and dishonest, and can't be trusted to regulate itself.
Jeet Heer
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PoliticsSeptember 16, 2021
America’s Afghanistan Amnesia
To scapegoat Joe Biden, the national security establishment covered up two decades of lies.
Jeet Heer
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Media AnalysisSeptember 4, 2021
How Cheerleaders of the Forever Wars Got Away With Murder
In reckoning with post-9/11 fantasies and lies, don’t forget the role of the press.
Jeet Heer
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FilmAugust 4, 2021
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The RightJuly 26, 2021
Like JFK, Biden Has Good Reason to Be Wary of the Military
In the 1960s, anti-communism provided an entry point for the far right. Today, it’s opposition to anti-racism.
Jeet Heer
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HistoryJuly 14, 2021
Utopia and Dystopia Are Twins—Both Are Born Out of Criticism
But it is only Utopia that allows us to dream together.
Jeet Heer
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DemocratsJune 14, 2021
Are Dems Incapable of Defending Democracy? Or Just Unwilling?
Bolstering voting rights is both urgent and popular. Yet for all his talk of “existential crisis,” Biden hasn’t turned up the heat on Manchin or Sinema.
Jeet Heer