Vengeance Politics

Vengeance Politics
Antifa protesters demonstrate on the University of Utah campus against an event where right wing writer and commentator Ben Shapiro is speaking in Salt Lake City, Utah, on Sept. 27, 2017. George Frey/Getty Images
Mark Bauerlein
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Actually, forget politics, forget liberal and conservative, Democrat and Republican, and drop the idea that we have two parties competing over public power and two ideologies battling in the marketplace of ideas. Those debates and that kind of partisanship are over, no matter how often the guests on news shows still speak as if it’s 1995.

Mark Bauerlein
Mark Bauerlein
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Mark Bauerlein is an emeritus professor of English at Emory University. His work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The Weekly Standard, The Washington Post, the TLS, and the Chronicle of Higher Education.
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