Wrath-Bearing Tree Review 3/27/16

"But I have always held that, if he who bases his hopes on human nature is a fool, he who gives up in the face of circumstances is a coward. And henceforth, the only honorable course will be to stake everything on a formidable gamble: that words are more powerful than munitions." 

This Week on WBT:

Adrian Bonenberger on Bernie Bros and American Privilege:

https://www.wrath-bearingtree.com/2016/03/our-american-privilege/

WBT Friends:

Carson on Trump and neocons at Salon: http://www.salon.com/2016/03/12/trump_would_be_as_bad_as_bush_a_commander_in_chief_who_respects_the_military_does_not_order_soldiers_to_commit_war_crimes/

Editor’s Recommendations

Cultural Criticism

Trump is Loki: http://thebaffler.com/blog/donald-trump-trickster-god

We are Patrick Bateman: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/27/theater/in-hindsight-an-american-psycho-looks-a-lot-like-us.html

Advocacy

Life in solitary with a homicidal cellmate: https://www.themarshallproject.org/2016/03/24/the-deadly-consequences-of-solitary-with-a-cellmate?ref=hp-1-122#.o7ZedJ5Kq

On Georgia's new felony driving law: https://theintercept.com/2016/03/23/georgias-felony-driving-law-targets-blacks-latinos-undocumented-immigrants/

Politics

Why the kids aren't all right with Clinton: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/why-young-people-are-right-about-hillary-clinton-20160325

Fiction

John McCain is a communist sympathizer: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/25/opinion/john-mccain-salute-to-a-communist.html

Supposedly a good war story is a fascist-killing war story: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bernardhenri-levy/writers-and-war_b_9547584.html