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The Undertow

Scenes from a Slow Civil War

by Jeff Sharlet · first published 2023

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  • 1letterunixname · Dec 8, 2023 · Recommends

    …skills, knowledge, perspective, and intellectual and moral honesty and courage. Here are some controversial books that may enlighten the reader to some of the myriad nuances of intersecting problems: - The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War by Sharlet. 2023. - Woke Racism by McWhorter. 2021. - The Case Against BDS: Why Singling Out Israel for Boycott is Anti-Semitic. by Dershowitz. 2018. - Empire of Illusion:…

    on “Stop Demanding Dumb Answers to Hard Questions” ↗
  • Apropos book: The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War by J. Sharlet The Joe Rogan, Alex Jones, Rush Limbaugh, Rupert Murdoch (indirectly), and Paul Harvey types of talk radio/cable "news"/streaming have been wildly-successful…

    on “Civil War Comes to the West (2023)” ↗
  • pryce · Feb 13, 2023 · Mentions

    …if redirected to focus on the US domestic citizen. [1] A journalist who has spent the last few years researching this widening social fracturing is Jeff Sharlet, whose forthcoming book is called "The Undertow: Scenes from a slow civil war" [2] https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20161004-was-modern-art-...

    on “US military shoots down object over Lake Huron” ↗

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