In the News: Reading & Resisting

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Brokenheartlands: Arlie Russell Hochschild’s Strangers in Their Own Land

Patrick Blanchfield reviews Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right by Arlie Russell Hochschild. Continue Reading →

Daily Links

The Southern Party:  I’m betting Santorum takes Alabama and Mississippi tonight. In the meanwhile, read Alec MacGillis at The New Republic:

If this year’s GOP presidential candidates have all year been making such a conservative pitch in order to appeal to a party shaped by the South, why have they been having such a hard time connecting with voters in the most Southern states of all?

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