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The American Id Newsletter plumbs the depths of the American psyche, using history and pop-culture to treat the political maladies of our moment.
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America’s Heartland… Middle-earth? (opens the original)
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Back in 2019 at the annual conference of the Popular Culture Association in Washington D.C., I presented a paper on J.R.R. Tolkien’s emergence in U.S. conservative political discourse. A window between summer projects recently gave me a chance to update the citations and footnotes and submit it to The Journal of Tolkien Research. JRT just posted it, and because the journal is open-access, you can read it online for free. It’s called "Getting To
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