In this conversation…
Caro & Katie engage in a close read of the viral Free Press debate TikTok that stars a young woman angry she can’t live on a homestead, and accidentally discover it’s a uniquely emblematic case study of alt-right radicalization.
Bonus Reading & Watching
Responding to the Right by Nathan Robinson, the editor-in-chief of Current Affairs, a book which does a good job of diagnosing and cataloging typical conservative rhetorical strategies
This ContraPoints video dissecting the faux intellectualism of Jordan Peterson types
Family Values: Between Neoliberalism and the New Social Conservatism by Melinda Cooper, which elaborates on the capitalist obsession with the nuclear family unit
Revolutionary Road, a National Book Award-nominated novel that serves as the ultimate excoriation of the 1950’s picket-fence-suburban-nuclear-family American dream
