“What is new, and unusual, about today’s far right is the large number of young people, most of them men, who have been drawn into its orbit—or, as they would put it, ‘red pilled.’ The metaphor comes from The Matrix, the dystopian science-fiction movie in which the protagonist, Neo, is offered a red pill that allows him to see through society’s illusions and view the world in its true, ugly reality.” Angela Nagle in The Atlantic: The Lost Boys: The young men of the alt-right could define American politics for a generation. (This is a companion piece to one I linked to yesterday: The Making of an American Nazi.)

+ CityLab: So You Accidentally Booked a White Supremacist Band… (The first clue was when your request for Hava Nagila was met with blank stares.)