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Each Monday, the New Republic staff will discuss the newest episode of HBO’s Game of Thrones, which is in its seventh and penultimate season. Join us as we chat about the latest plot developments, cheering for the White Walkers, and that feeling when your sister sneaks into your room and finds all the faces in your leather satchel.

In Boston this weekend, a tiny “Free Speech” rally with a podium lineup of various xenophobes was muffled by some 30,000 counter-protesters. You could hear the crowds, screaming down the likes of white nationalist Kyle “Based Stickman” Chapman, all the way from Beacon Hill to Faneuil Hall. So it’s strange that in the end, their voices didn’t carry.

The notion that Donald Trump’s presidency constitutes an open-ended, moment-to-moment crisis for the United States and the world is no longer a contested one. If there’s one thing his staunchest allies and opponents agree on, it’s that Trump is dangerous.

It took the shock of Trumpism to finally awaken complacent liberals to a whole raft of ugly truths about twenty-first-century America—and about the last truly great American invention, the unregulated internet. Somewhere during primary season in 2016, it began to dawn on us en masse that social-media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit—the kinds of places liberal utopians and Silicon Valley hucksters had long assured us would be magical boons to an “open society” and the progressive cause—had... Читать дальше...