Tag: United States

Categories
Article

Beneath a Hyperborean Sun

Written by: Thomas Rawson Alt-right nationalism sits in the centre of a flat world populated by ancient aliens, devil worshipping political elites, all underpinned by esoteric theories and speculation. The link between Naziism and pseudoscience is well-established in modern culture but poorly understood. In contemporary media, portrayals of Nazi magic and treasure hunting are ubiquitous, from […]

Categories
Article

“Reaping the Consequences: The Politics of Hate and Atrocity in the Pacific War”

Written by: Luke Matthews The key belligerents of the Pacific War, the United States and the Empire of Japan, engaged in a mutually constitutive identity construction that branded “the other” as savage and necessarily killable. This was based on conceptions of racial and civilizational hierarchy, with each side contending that the other was its direct […]