Alexander Billet is a writer, poet and cultural critic living in Chicago. He is a founding editor at Red Wedge magazine and has written for The Nation, Jacobin, New Politics and other outlets. Follow him on Twitter: @UbuPamplemousse.
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Donald Trump and the Aesthetics of Fascism
What a 20th-century Marxist art critic can teach us about a very 21st-century candidate.
Alexander Billet
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The New Anthems of Resistance: Hip-Hop and Black Lives Matter
Black Lives Matter and hip-hop have taken the omnipresent tensions around racism in America and put them into the center of mainstream consciousness.
Alexander Billet