From Time, a cover story: Is Glenn Beck bad for America? Beck is the future of literary fiction: A handful of right-wing bestsellers have recast mundane cultural dislocation into riveting epics of paranoia (and more). Cleon Skousen was a right-wing crank whom even conservatives despised — then Beck discovered him. Bill O'Reilly and Rush Limbaugh beware: There will soon be a bull detector for our TVs. John David Lewis on Obama’s atomic bomb and the ideological clarity of the Democratic agenda. Why the Obama haters are choking on their own sins — the ambivalent madness of (former) king GOP. Inside Sarah's Church: An excerpt from Republican Gomorrah by Max Blumenthal (and more and more). A review of The Conscience of a Libertarian: Empowering the Citizen Revolution with God, Guns, Gambling & Tax Cuts by Wayne Allyn Root. From TAP, going to extremes: There is much to fear in the right's comfort with radicalism, but little to envy; the return of the repressed: It should come as no surprise that with the election of Barack Obama, the right has returned to a politics of racial resentment (and more); and stuff some white people don't like: The right's animosity toward Obama isn't about fascism or socialism — it's about racism (but so what?). From Taki's Mag, an article on the GOP as the White People Party. Gordon Baum, the chief executive officer of the Council of Conservative Citizens, can tell a good story. If any of you can tap your inner John Bircher, please share your crazed thoughts: What will be the right's next big Obama conspiracy theory?
