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The right is obsessed with Lord of the Rings. But they don’t understand it.

The right is obsessed with Lord of the Rings. But they don’t understand it.

Among the many humiliations of being American in the current moment is this: Members of the tech right and the conservative ruling class continually fetishize objects of nerd culture while also displaying a willful inability to grasp the very basic messages those objects are sending. While there are certainly worse problems (e.g. white nationalism in […]

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