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— 12 April 2023 —

Inside the dissident fringe, where the new right meets the far left, and everyone’s bracing for apocalypse

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These ideas used to be at the fringiest fringe of a worldview that sees our basic political battle lines shifting from left-right divisions toward a rebellion against globalization, against the notion that the massive market- and tech-driven change that we’ve been living through really represents progress. 

James Pogue

Link to article in Vanity Fair by James Pogue

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