The Federalist Daily Briefing for 08/25/2017

Your daily update of new content from The Federalist Be lovers of freedom and anxious for the fray Is this email not displaying correctly? [View it in your browser](. August 25, 2017 [America’s Post-Charlottesville Nervous Breakdown Was Deliberately Induced]( By Stella Morabito Americans are being emotionally manipulated to take up cause with those whose ultimate purpose is the repeal of the First Amendment and erasure of national memory. [Full article]( [The Only Thing Neo-Nazis Are Good For Is Exposing Free Speech Hypocrisy]( By John Daniel Davidson Neo-Nazis are a cancer on American public life. But they have exposed the hypocrisy of Internet companies that claim to care about free speech. [Full article]( [Both The Radical Left And White Nationalists Have False Visions Of Western Civilization]( By Samuel Buntz The white supremacist pose towards cultural ‘defense’ is a shame and a sham, while the project of defending civilization against ignorance and decadence is well worth pursuing. [Full article]( [Are White Nationalists Just Sexually Frustrated Lost Boys?]( By Caroline D'Agati We amateur psychologists diagnosing frustrated males may be ignoring an inconvenient truth: that we are afflicted with the same disorder. Our symptoms just aren’t as severe. [Full article]( [Why We Need A New Holiday To Celebrate The Fall Of Fascism]( By Kyle Sammin Allied victory in the Second World War created the world we live in today. It is only right that we should mark the end of the old epoch with a national day of remembrance. [Full article]( [Trump’s Afghanistan Plan Upends His Campaign Promises Against Perpetual War]( By Bonnie Kristian President Trump’s Afghanistan plan is, above all, a pledge to double down on the bipartisan failures of the last decade and half, making changes only for the worse. [Full article]( [In Storytelling, ‘The Defenders’ Is Prestige Television At Its Worst]( By Titus Techera The new Netflix-Marvel series asks interesting questions about human dignity, but falls into individualism and identity politics instead of answering them. [Full article]( [3 Ways Kathleen Sebelius Sabotaged The Rule Of Law]( By Christopher Jacobs In her claims this week that the Trump administration ‘has consistently tried to undermine the law that is the law of the land,’ Kathleen Sebelius knows of which she speaks. [Full article]( [We Need To Learn To Sing Together Again, And Not Just At Green Day Concerts]( By Cheryl Magness It seems so obvious that it should hardly need to be argued: if we don’t teach our children to sing together, they won’t grow up with the ability to do so. [Full article]( [Why Seattle Just Adopted An Income Tax They Know Is Illegal]( By David Dewhirst The tax is unconstitutional, illegal, and a lawless usurpation of the people’s direct political power. Notably, this is only a non-exhaustive list of the tax’s legal maladies. [Full article]( [No, It’s Not The Onion: Pregnancy Center Attacked For Candle That ‘Smells Like A Baby’]( By Jay Hobbs That’s right, 'Candlegate' is upon us. Run for your lives. [Full article]( [5 Surprisingly Clean And Actually Funny Comedies Streaming Now On Netflix]( By Josh Shepherd With Hollywood producing an endless variety of crude comedies, stopping a Netflix movie you’ve started is more common even than having Wi-Fi problems. [Full article]( [McKay Coppins On Jeff Flake, Free Speech, And The Future Of The GOP]( By The Federalist Staff Writer and reporter McKay Coppins shares key takeaways from conversations with Jeff Flake and other Hill Republicans on the Federalist Radio Hour. [Full article]( [Couple Says It Was Horse Play, But University Suspends Male For Assault, Won’t Release Surveillance Video]( By Ashe Schow The University of Southern California appears to have been so committed to showing that it takes Title IX issues seriously it ignored a woman’s claim that she wasn’t abused. [Full article]( [Hitler’s Atrocities Should Be A Warning To 2017 America, Not A Political Cudgel]( By Mollie Hemingway Should Hitler be viewed as demonic or a sinful human being? How you answer could help you navigate today's political conflicts. [Full article]( WHAT BIG TECH’S POWERS MEAN FOR OUR CULTURE Kolbert. “Thirty years ago, almost no one used the Internet for anything. Today, just about everybody uses it for everything. Even as the Web has grown, however, it has narrowed. Google now controls nearly ninety per cent of search advertising, Facebook almost eighty per cent of mobile social traffic, and Amazon about seventy-five per cent of e-book sales. Such dominance, Jonathan Taplin argues, in “Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy” (Little, Brown), is essentially monopolistic. In his account, the new monopolies are even more powerful than the old ones, which tended to be limited to a single product or service. Carnegie, Taplin suggests, would have been envious of the reach of Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos.” Read more of The Transom by signing up for a [free trial]( today. [follow on Twitter]( | friend on Facebook | [forward to a friend]( Copyright © 2017 The Federalist, All rights reserved. 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