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John Ganz

@lioneltrolling.bsky.social

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dottore, ingegnere, avvocato When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s — out now from @fsgbooks https://www.unpopularfront.news/

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John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social · Apr 6

The hardcover of When the Clock Broke is on sale at many outlets!
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When the Clock Broke

ONE OF THE WASHINGTON POST'S TEN BEST BOOKS OF 2024One of The New York Times's 100 Notable Books of 2024Longlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award...

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John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social · 2d

You don't understand the difference between government, movement, and regime.

Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 3d

If we were living under fascism, none of you would be here daring to post things. You'd be erasing your social media accounts and keeping your head down; you'd know that peacocking your faux-bravery on a network would expose you to being disappeared.
You have no idea what "fascism" really means.

shane @mouthfulofcavities.bsky.social · 3d

the regime is zip tying toddlers and ripping them away from their mothers unclothed... calling it fascism upsets this neo-con.

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John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social · 2d

The weekly round-up.—
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More on atomization and association; changing public opinion on Israel; Piero Gobetti's liberal anti-fascism

Reading, Watching 10.05.25

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John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social · 3d

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Trump has not been seen in public since Tuesday and has no public events on his calendar today

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Nick Field @nickfield.bsky.social · 5d

Can't recommend John Ganz's When the Clock Broke enough. Finally someone has written a Rick Perlstein-style book that serves as a "fossil record of Trumpism". This one covers Bush 41's Administration and I really hope he's working on another volume for the rest of the 90s and the Clinton Presidency

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Dissent Magazine @dissentmag.bsky.social · 6d

New online: John Ganz (@lioneltrolling.bsky.social) interviews Dylan J. Riley on Trump and the state of American democracy.

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The Battle Over Civil Society - Dissent Magazine

An interview with Dylan J. Riley on Trump and the state of American democracy.

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John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social · 6d

And here is the full audio.
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The Battle Over Civil Society

Talking to Dylan Riley about Trump, Democracy, and Fascism

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John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social · 6d

I interviewed Dylan Riley about Trump, fascism, and civil society for @dissentmag.bsky.social www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

The Battle Over Civil Society - Dissent Magazine

An interview with Dylan J. Riley on Trump and the state of American democracy.

www.dissentmagazine.org

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John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social · 6d

I interviewed Dylan Riley about Trump, fascism, and civil society for @dissentmag.bsky.social www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

The Battle Over Civil Society - Dissent Magazine

An interview with Dylan J. Riley on Trump and the state of American democracy.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 6d

new convo between me and @lioneltrolling.bsky.social on hegseth and that weird display in quantico www.patreon.com/posts/unclea...

Unclear and Present Politics Episode 4 — Military Readiness Edition (Video) | Unclear and Present Patreon

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John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social · 6d

Episode 4 — www.patreon.com/posts/unclea...

Unclear and Present Politics Episode 4 — Military Readiness Edition | Unclear and Present Patreon

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John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social · 6d

I missed this really thoughtful and detailed review in American Political Thought last spring. www.researchgate.net/publication/...

(PDF) Keeping the Nineties Weird

PDF | On Mar 1, 2025, Charles U. Zug published Keeping the Nineties Weird | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate

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John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social · 9d

In this week's round-up, I spoke to essayist Pankaj Mishra about his most recent book The World After Gaza. —
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Talking to Pankaj Mishra; Natasha Stagg's Grand Rapids; Further Readings on Hegemony

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John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social · 11d

Unpopular Front is going to start doing some author interviews. Today I recorded with essayist and novelist Pankaj Mishra, which will hopefully be up on Sunday, and I'm recording with sociologist Dylan Riley on Monday

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13d

new episode of the pod on the kimmel situation www.patreon.com/posts/139673...

Unclear and Present Politics Episode 3 — The Kimmel Sanction (Video) | Unclear and Present Patreon

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John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social · 13d

Episode 3
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Unclear and Present Politics Episode 3 — The Kimmel Sanction | Unclear and Present Patreon

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John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social · 13d

thanks fixed now

John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social · 13d

I jotted down some quick notes about where things stand post-Kimmel:
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Notes on the 'Balance of Forces'

Civil Society as a Battlefield

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Max Read @maxread.info · 14d

if you want to put in melinda cooper terms you could note that paramount-skydance and sinclair are both family-controlled firms while disney is one of the archetypal public companies of the era

matthew ellis @matthiasellis.com · 15d

The Kimmel Incident should be seen first and foremost not as a struggle over the first amendment but a battle over a subset of capital attempting a takeover of traditional broadcasting infrastructure. It has more to do with the Ellison/Weiss takeover of CBS than it does “free speech.”

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John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social · 14d

On the spectacle and reality of power.—
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Drawing out Leviathan

A Minor Victory but a Major Defeat

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John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social · 15d

The first actually useful application of AI has been proposed

Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 15d

It would also be great if social media sites had a feature in which they posted something on the top of the site saying, "It looks like you haven't been on social media for a while. There's been a thing. Do you need help understanding it?"

Emily Nussbaum @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 15d

There should be a word for that cognitive situation where you need to search backward to figure out what news story is leading everyone online to talk about (for example) the rapture

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16d

there is a point here i want to amplify. the free speech defenders of the mainstream seem to have no awareness that actual free speech is often more fractious and destabilizing than civil and respectful. a society where speech is genuinely free isn’t the deferential space they want it to be.

John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social · 16d

The round-up.—
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Reflections on Free Speech; The Lost Art of Debate; Machiavelli on ‘Good’ Cruelty; When Hitchens was Great

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John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social · 16d

The round-up.—
www.unpopularfront.news/p/reflection...

Reflections on Free Speech; The Lost Art of Debate; Machiavelli on ‘Good’ Cruelty; When Hitchens was Great

Reading, Watching 09.21.25

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John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social · 17d

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Christopher Hitchens on Hannity & Colmes about Rev. Falwell's Death

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Sarah Emily Duff @sarahemilyduff.bsky.social · 19d

“‘A new age of anti-politics was dawning, in which the adoption of substantive political positions or policy pledges was a risk, and the best a professional politician could do was remain likeable but vague on specifics, talking as little as possible about ‘politics’.”

William Davies · Repeal the 20th Century: Pre-MAGA

To understand the intellectual coordinates of Trumpism requires us to look in less conventional places and to pay more...

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John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social · 19d

“This is all feeling awfully like home,” a friend of mine from Russia texted me yesterday evening. www.unpopularfront.news/p/this-is-it

This Is It

Obedience and Support are the Same

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