Nicole Hemmer

1990s culture wars: We’re cancelling the Enola Gay exhibit bc veterans and historians can’t agree whether we should celebrate its role in ending WWII or critically assess the decision to use nuclear weapons 2020s culture wars: We’re cancelling the Enola Gay bc “gay” is a no-no word

When the “first hundred days” coverage starts, keep this in mind. FDR’s hundred days was a special session of Congress that passed legislation to enact his agenda. The story here is *not* how active the Trump administration’s been—it’s the unprecedented and unconstitutional consolidation of power.

both joe rogan and megyn kelly—two of the biggest podcasts out there—had guests today who argued that it’s unnatural for women to work outside the home. so that’s how that’s going

I often argue that media and politics are co-constitutive: each shapes the other. So it’s no surprise that right-wing consolidation of media & government are happening in tandem. And it’s a reminder that we will have to build democratic media as a part of reconstructing democratic governance.

writing a book about exactly this!

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About a year ago, Megyn Kelly went on a long rant about how Tom Homan was the Colonel Jessep that America needed. There’s a real admiration for authoritarians, fictional and real, on the right!