According to certain media personalities, pundits, politicians, and clergymen, the United States faces an enemy who threatens to unravel the social fabric. That enemy has a name, and that name is antifa. In recent weeks rumors proliferated how busloads of antifa anarchists were on their way to small towns across Continue Reading
Manufactured Outrage
Manufactured Outrage and the War on Christmas
This Christmas season, I noticed how often I was greeted with “Merry Christmas!” as if I was being challenged or tested. Having recently returned from living abroad for six years, I found such encounters bizarre. Then, I read The Outrage Industry: Political Opinion Media and the New Incivility by Berry Continue Reading