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When Jennifer Wenzel saw the now-iconic photo of Nazi sympathizer James Alex Fields, Jr. driving his car into a crowd of counterprotesters, it reminded her of another image that emerged out of a “Unite the Right” moment in 1937. Like the Charlottesville photo, Pablo Picasso’s anti-war masterpiece Guernica, she writes, “conveys a moment of terror through a jumble of forms and fragments that seem to make no sense.”
President Donald Trump is a master of using fear to motivate his base. David Alpher, who has worked to resolve conflict in Iraq, explains how Trump’s rhetoric is understood by domestic extremists – and how moderates can fight against violent polarization.
And the next time you cross the street, take a moment to think how it might be a different experience if the cars around you didn’t have human drivers. Without making eye contact with its driver, how would you be confident an approaching car won’t hit you? Michael Clamann at Duke University’s Humans and Autonomy Lab explains how his research, and others’, is trying to figure out how best to have cars and pedestrians communicate with each other.
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Nick Lehr
Editor, Arts and Culture
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Ryan Kelly’s iconic photograph of the moment that James Fields’ car plowed into a crowd of protestors in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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Jennifer Wenzel, Columbia University
Ryan Kelly's iconic photograph from Charlottesville evokes a 'Unite the Right' moment from 1937 – and the anti-war masterpiece by Picasso that emerged from it.
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Charlottesville
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Arie Perliger, University of Massachusetts Lowell
The United States is seeing an uptick in far-right extremist violence. It's time to pay more attention to this scourge and its causes.
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George Michael, Westfield State University
An academic who has studied the American far right explores whether the alt-right can become a sustained political force.
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Alfred L. Brophy, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill
What message does it send when we remove symbols of an unsavory – but important – part of American history?
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From our international editions
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Jose Antonio Gonzalez Zarandona, Deakin University; César Albarrán Torres, Swinburne University of Technology
The violence sparked by the removal of Confederate statues in the US shows the ideas that collect around historical monuments. Sometimes it's better to remove them; yet they can be an important way of remembering trauma.
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Dominik Stecula, University of British Columbia; Eric Merkley, University of British Columbia
Eleven years after its release, An Inconvenient Truth, the iconic climate documentary, has spawned a sequel. But did the original do more harm than good by polarizing Americans on climate change?
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Karen West, Aston University
The generational 'war' is a con, designed to hide a darker truth.
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