Faculty Writing: On Climate Writing, The Right-Wing Hunger for Pain, and Race Science
In a conversation for The Baffler, Ajay Singh Chaudhary and Thea Riofrancos discussed Thea’s new book, the nature of democracy, extraction, and the pitfalls of writing about the climate crisis. Meanwhile, in two new faculty book reviews, Hannah Leffingwell catalogued, for Jacobin Magazine, how the right delights in inflicting pain; while Suzanne Schneider uncovered, in The New York Review of Books, the post-war ‘missing link’ between nineteenth century race science and the present-day far right: “While a previous generation of conservatives had welded religious traditionalism to free market principles—the original fusionism associated with Frank Meyer and the National Review—their ideological successors found evolutionary psychology, genetics, and biological anthropology more useful.”