What might have seemed to most to be normal, if unusually acrimonious, political aggression was in fact a classic example of a right-wing strategy developed in the late 1980s: Fourth Generation Warfare (4GW).
The Public Eye Magazine
The Public Eye, Summer 2017
Issue
91
Sociologist and former civilian intelligence analyst James Scaminaci takes a close look at “Fourth Generation Warfare,” a fusion of military theory and the A movement that emerged in the 1970s encompassing a wide swath of conservative Catholicism and Protestant evangelicalism. Learn more agenda that seeks to undermine the public’s confidence not just in the government and media, but in a commonly-accepted reality itself. In an exclusive excerpt from the provocative new book, Democracy in Chains, Duke University historian Nancy MacLean examines the intellectual legacy of conservative economist James Buchanan, and how it influenced a generation of right-wing activists. A longtime civil rights strategist Eric Ward writes in “Skin in the Game” about how A form of oppression targeting Jews and those perceived to be Jewish, including bigoted speech, violent acts, and discriminatory policy. Learn more remains the driving force of A social movement based on a belief in biologically determined racial hierarchies, often with the ultimate goal of establishing an all-White nation state. Learn more . Professor and writer Aaron Barlow’s “The Triumph of the Lie” is a meditation on how political lying has perhaps found its zenith in the Trump era. “Captive Audience,” by Tanya Erzen, looks at how conservative Christian prison ministries continue to create a two-tiered caste system within the corrections industry even while paying lip service to ideas of criminal justice reform.
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