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Pop Culture Roundup: This Week

This Week ... The London Underground, Pokemon, Hitler and art, Black Lives Matter and more.


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Tell Me Again. Why Should a Party Leader Be Above Politics?

by Gil Troy

The 19th-century humorist Finley Peter Dunne famously insisted that “politics ain’t beanbag.” Remember?


Five Things About Trump’s Rise That Would Make Xi Jinping Smile

by Jeffrey Wasserstrom

Trump’s dystopian oration, was music to the ears of someone hoping, like Xi, to see global admiration for the United States lessen.


Paranoid Republidents for Trump

by Niall Ferguson

Trump's movement rests on what Richard Hofstadter called the "paranoid style of American politics."


The revenge of unrealistic expectations

by Robert J. Samuelson

It’s the revolution of rising expectations again.


Mr. Trump, You’re No Richard Nixon

by Rick Perlstein

Mr. Trump, I’ve studied Richard Nixon. And you’re no Richard Nixon.


Donald Trump and America’s Moral Authority

by Mary L. Dudziak

Trump's statement that the US is hardly in a position to lecture Turkey's Erdogan on civil liberties is astounding.


The theory of political leadership that Donald Trump shares with Adolf Hitler

by Peter Ross Range

"I alone can fix it" and the personalization of a political movement.


There’s Nothing Un-American About Donald Trump

by Greg Grandin

Trump’s “Midnight in America” speech at the Republican National Convention could’ve been lifted directly from the Puritans.


With money from white supremacists, black activists have been funding “Back to Africa” movements for centuries

by Keisha N. Blain

One man’s GoFundMe dares racists to put their money where their mouth is.


The RNC Is a Disaster—So Why Can’t I Sleep at Night?

by D.D. Guttenplan

A book on Hitler’s mass appeal explains why we can’t underestimate Trump.