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Howse reviews L'Obsession anti-americaine: Son fonctionnement, ses causes, ses inconsequences (The Anti-American Obsession: How It Operates, Its Causes, and Its Lack of Consequence) by Jean-Francois Revel.

THIS ARTICLE ARGUES THAT PEOPLE WHO ARE BLAMED (THE WORKING-CLASS IN RUSSIA) WANT TO BLAME BACK: THAT THERE IS IN RUSSIA AN ENORMOUS RESERVIOR OF FREE-FLOATING RESENTMENT THAT IS SEEKING AN OBJECT. THE DISCUSSION OF THE DECEMBER ELECTION HAS MISSED THE UNDERLYING PROBLEM. THE PROBLEM IS LESS FASCIST POLITICS THAN THE ABSENCE OF ANY GENUINE POLITICS AT ALL. FASCISM YOU CAN FIGHT, BUT HOW DO YOU MAKE POLITICS APPEAR OUT OF NOWHERE? ZHIRINOVSKY HAS GIVEN THE DRIFTING RESENTMENTS OF ORDINARY RUSSIANS AN OUTLET. COMMUNISM WAS UNIQUE IN HUMAN HISTORY. IF SOMETHING TERRIBLE AND INHUMANE FOLLOWS IT, THAT SYSTEM WILL BE AS HARD TO RECOGNIZE AND AS HARD TO RESPOND TO, AS FASCISM WAS IN ITS TIME.

Resentment has a history. Paintings such as Géricault's Le Radeau de La Méduse, nineteenth-century women's manifestos and WWI war photographs provide but a few examples to retrace the changing physiognomy of this emotion from the second half of the eighteenth century up to our contemporary society. The essays in this collection attempt to shed light on the historical evolution of this affective experience adopting the French Revolution as a ""gravitational force"", namely as a moment in which t

Richard Lachmann reviews J.D. Vance's Hillbilly Elegy.

In a world increasingly shaped by displacement and migration, refuge is both a coveted right and an elusive promise for millions. While conventionally understood as legal protection, it also transcends judicial definitions. In Lived Refuge, Vinh Nguyen reconceptualizes refuge as an ongoing affective experience and lived relation rather than a fixed category with legitimacy derived from the state.
Focusing on Southeast Asian diasporas in the wake of the Vietnam War, Nguyen examines three affective experiences—gratitude, resentment, and resilience—to reveal the actively lived dimensions of refuge. Through multifaceted analyses of literary and cultural productions, Nguyen argues that the meaning of refuge emerges from how displaced people negotiate the kinds of safety and protection that are offered to (and withheld from) them. In so doing, he lays the framework for an original and compelling understanding of contemporary refugee subjectivity.
"Lived Refuge allows us to see refugees in a new way. Vinh Nguyen's engagement with the experiments, negotiations, and refusals of refuge provides a unique window into understanding how refugee subjectivity is enacted today." — PETER NYERS, McMaster University
"In haunting, lyrical prose with Walter Benjamin's urgency and Raymond Williams' political deftness, Nguyen's illuminating study marks a milestone in migration studies at large." — B. VENKAT MANI, author of Cosmopolitical Claims and Recoding World Literature
"Nguyen offers a masterful, unrelenting rebuttal to state-sanctioned narratives of 'deserving' refugees. After reading Lived Refuge, you'll realize that we need refugees more than they need us." — ERIC TANG, author of Unsettled: Cambodian Refugees in the NYC Hyperghetto

A GROWING BODY OF PUBLIC OPINION DATA, NEWSPAPER REPORTS, ANECDOTAL EVIDENCE, AND SOCIOLOGICAL RESEARCH SUGGESTS THAT WHITES FEEL FRUSTRATED AND UNFAIRLY VICTIMIZED BY AFFIRMATIVE ACTION PREFERENCES. THE POLITICAL AND SOCIAL CONSEQUENCES OF SUCH FRUSTRATION ARE UNCERTAIN, BUT THEY MAY BE CONTRIBUTING TO RACIAL POLARIZATION ON MANY CAMPUSES, IN WORKPLACES, AND IN POLITICAL LIFE. WHITE RESPONSES TO AFFIRMATIVE ACTION QUOTAS ARE PATTERNED IN PART BY SOCIAL CLASS, UNION MEMBERSHIP, AND EDUCATION LEVEL. A RELATED FACTOR AFFECTING RESPONSE OF WHITES HAS BEEN THEIR INSTITUTIONAL LOCATION. AFFIRMATIVE ACTION PREFERENCES HAVE MOST AFFECTED YOUNGER WHITES IN PUBLIC SECTOR ORGANIZATIONS AND CORPORATIONS WITH GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS. PREFERENCES HAVE ALSO BEEN IMPLEMENTED WITH INCREASING CANDOR AND AGGRESSIVENESS IN UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES.