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• Kathleen Belew, author of Bring the War Home, spoke with NPR’s Terry Gross about the Vietnam War–era roots of today’s alt-right activism, and how recent “lone wolf” terrorists—like Dylan Roof—are in fact deeply enmeshed in the white power movement.
• Ana Raquel Minian, author of Undocumented Lives, explained to PRI’s The World how Mexican immigration to the U.S. has evolved, from the end of the bracero program in the 1960s through decades of community development by Mexicans in the United States to today’s political crisis around the issue [starts at 06:10].
• Samuel Moyn, author of Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World, argued in the New York Times that the human rights movement must adopt a more ambitious agenda—including a focus on addressing economic inequality—if it is to provide the necessary alternative to “the rising evils of our time.”
• Matthew Bowman, author of Christian: The Politics of a Word in America, talked to Religion News Service about how Donald Trump panders to the religious right.

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April 19: Facebook Interruptus

The Facebook hearings last week were quite the spectacle. Mark Zuckerberg deftly deflected his inquisitors and misled them, while share price rose 4.5% in a single day. Senators and representatives postured for their constituents and got free prime-time media exposure. Privacy experts crowed and gloated that they had always been right, but unfairly ignored. The media and the Internet harvested abundant costless content. And social media lit up, abuzz. Between the schadenfreude and the glee, and the plain-old gawking and goggling, everybody seemed to pleasure themselves. It was win-win—except, perhaps, for the ordinary digital subjects who were left high and dry: pleasantly entertained, but totally exposed. In the end, the Facebook hearings were nothing more than another tantalizing but a…