Published 17 February 200917 February 2009 · Main Posts more from the great derangement of the American Right Jeff Sparrow As a supplement to the previous post on Michael Ledeen’s discovery of fascism in Obama’s stimulus package, here’s the increasingly porcine Glen Beck talking with Bill O’Reilly about the persecution of US conservatives and how it will lead to revolution. These guys might be whacked out nutcases but they’ve both got top-rating mainstream. Sure, in this segment, they’re clowing a bit but, again, there’s going to be an awful lot of people taking such talk seriously. Jeff Sparrow Jeff Sparrow is a Walkley Award-winning writer, broadcaster and former editor of Overland. More by Jeff Sparrow › Overland is a not-for-profit magazine with a proud history of supporting writers, and publishing ideas and voices often excluded from other places. If you like this piece, or support Overland’s work in general, please subscribe or donate. Related articles & Essays 28 March 20249 April 2024 · Main Posts Why we should value not only lived experience, but also lived expertise Sukhmani Khorana In the wake of this year’s International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, I want to extend the central idea of El Gibbs’s 2022 essay on 'lived expertise' and argue that in media accounts of racism, analytical expertise and lived experience ought to be valued together and even in the same body. 5 March 2024 · Main Posts Andrew Charlton’s school assignment Alex McKinnon Australia's Pivot to India exists for three reasons: so that when Andrew Charlton is interviewed on the radio or introduced on Q+A, his bio includes the phrase "he has written a book about Indian-Australian relations"; to fend off accusations that he is another Kristina Keneally engaging in electoral colonialism in western Sydney; and to help the Albanese government strengthen economic and military ties with Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party.
