The inaugural issue of Continental Thought and Theory is out (“What does intellectual freedom mean today?”) Catalina Arguello Gutierrez, Hugo Carretero-Dios, Guillermo B. Willis, and Miguel Moya Morales (Granada): Joking about Ourselves: Effects of Disparaging Humor on Ingroup Stereotyping. Who are the trolls? Malcolm Harris reviews This is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things: Mapping the Relationship between Online Trolling and Mainstream Culture by Whitney Phillips. Michael Lipka on 10 facts about atheists. Meet the men behind your favorite women’s websites. Wikileaks is now in the biz of pushing Hillary Clinton conspiracy theories. Ben Shattuck reviews Brilliant Beacons: A History of the American Lighthouse by Eric Jay Dolin. Matt Novak on why America beat the Russians at building the Internet.
“Second Amendment People” solutions: Trump’s Clinton “joke” was no coincidence — the GOP espouses a right to bear arms whose logical conclusion is political assassination. Here’s the thing about “just joking”. Anyone who thinks Trump was “just joking” about shooting Clinton is missing the point. Donald Trump’s most WTF moments happen when he tries to speak conservative: Dara Lind on why Trump’s comments on subjects like guns and abortion end up sounding monstrous. Stranger in a strange land: For Trump, conservatism is a foreign realm to visit on the way to his final destination. Inside Donald Trump’s meltdown: Sinking polls, unending attacks and public blunders have the GOP reconsidering its strategy for November. Republicans support Trump’s behavior until it endangers their reelection: Letting Trump run wild exposes GOP’s lack of principles.
