“Trump is the sphinx who stands in the way of America entering a more hopeful future. In Greek mythology, the sphinx killed every traveler who failed to answer her riddle, until Oedipus finally solved it, causing the monster’s demise. The answer to Trump lies in every American’s hands. Then he needs only to go away.”
“The Atlantic is a heterodox place…”
Here is The Atlantic’s endorsement of Kamala Harris, first published on October 10, 2024. Email from The Atlantic, 30 October 2024.
It is a similar argument I have been making since July 2021, three years ago, in “Finding Peace from the Culture-History War: A Historiographical Message for the Times:”
“The Atlantic is still a conservative journal, but it is now being criticised by many agitators in the social media world, trying to normalise or mainstream what is anti-intellectualism, as originally described by Richard Hofstader (1962). Allen’s article is entitled, “The Road From Serfdom”, which is paying to homage to Friedrich Hayek, and a liberal-left critic would disagree with Hayek but agree with Allen that the alt-right is in danger of creating that serfdom Hayek feared coming from the Left.” (1-2)
REFERENCES
Allen, Danielle (2021). The Road From Serfdom: How Americans can become citizens again, The Atlantic, December 2019 [published online].
Buch, Neville (2021). Finding Peace from the Culture-History War: A Historiographical Message for the Times. Academia Letters, Article 1916. https://doi.org/10.20935/AL1916.
Buch, Neville (2023). Research Note: Anglo-American Major Belief-Doubt Systems, Dr Neville Buch ABN: 86703686642,
https://www.academia.edu/104984588/Research_Note_Anglo_American_Major_Belief_Doubt_Systems , 27 July 2023.
Hofstader, Richard (1962). Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, Vintage Books.
