THE NEW YORK TIMES IS NOT HAPPY, BUT I’M OKAY WITH IT: The New Culture of the Right: Vital, Masculine and Intentionally Offensive. “I think the best way to understand politics right now is that the United States, for the first time in my lifetime, has a real right-wing counterculture — an edgy, radical-seeming alternative to the status quo.” It’s awfully long, and there’s a lot of blather, but there are some interesting nuggets.

Including this on college: “The thing I’ve thought long and hard about — and what I saw when I was a lecturer at UCI — there’s been this severing of a continuity between the past and the present, and I think it’s an intentional severing. These kids, they’re not well read. They don’t really know anything. I spent half of my classes just teaching Wikipedia-tier history just so we can have enough context to have the conversation about the actual stuff we’re talking about.”