Rich Benjamin

Articles

• “David Byrne Does Broadway on the Fly”

  The New Yorker
  January 17, 2022
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• “America’s Election: The Long View of Progress”

  The New York Times | Opinion
  January 18, 2021
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• “Whitopia Meets the New American Majority: What Happens When a Red Georgia Turns Blue?”

  Slate
  December 23, 2020
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• “Trumpism: A Nation Full of Mini-Fascists”

  The Intercept
  September 27, 2020
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• “Three-Step Crisis Management for the High-End Karen”

  The New Yorker
  June 23, 2020
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• “A Book Critic on What is Wrong–and Right–With ‘Black Lists'”

  The Intercept
  June 22, 2020
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• “Not Just ‘Cops’: It’s Time to End the Entertainment Industry’s Anti-Black, Pro-Police Programming”

  The Intercept
  June 20, 2020
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• “Corporations Are Virtue-Signaling Like Crazy. But Actions Speak Louder Than Words.”

  Los Angeles Times Sunday Opinion
  June 14, 2020
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• “When Will I Be Able to Retire This Essay?: From Hurricane Katrina to #BLM”

  Esquire
  June 4, 2020
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• “Who Counts in a Census Taken During a Pandemic?”

  New York Review of Books
  April 14, 2020
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• “My Literary and Personal Encounters with Toni Morrison: A tribute”

  Lit Hub
  August 8, 2019
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• “When is Trump Going to Take White Supremacist Terror Seriously?”

  The Guardian | News Analysis
  August 7, 2019, 2019
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• “Trump’s White Tribalism: The Politics of 2020″

  Los Angeles Times | Sunday Opinion
  July 19, 2019, 2019
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• “Essential Reading for Cheating Parents”

  Los Angeles Times | Sunday Opinion
  March 17, 2019
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• “Money Talks, But Does Anyone Understand What It’s Saying?”

  Los Angeles Times | Sunday Opinion
  January 13, 2019
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• “The Trumpist White Minstrel Show”

  Los Angeles Times | Sunday Opinion
  October 28, 2018
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• “Trump’s ‘Prison-Reform’ Push”

  The New Yorker
  May 24, 2018
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• “Gun Control and The Politics of White Paranoia”

  The New Yorker
  April 4, 2018
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• “Martin Luther King Jr.’s Last Fears Are Still Alive in Trump’s America”

  Esquire
  April 3, 2018
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• “The Bush-Trump Continuum”

  Washington Post
  October 26, 2017
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• “The Disheartening Politics of Marriage”

  Esquire
  September 13, 2017
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• “Charlottesville Unveils the America Donald Trump Promised”

  Esquire
  August 14, 2017
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• ““The N.E.A. Really Isn’t ‘Welfare For Rich Liberal Elites'”

  The New Yorker
  May 2, 2017
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• “What It Was Like Being a Leftwing Pundit on ‘The O’Reilly Factor'”

  The New Yorker
  April 25, 2017
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• “GET OUT and the Death of White Racial Innocence”

  The New Yorker
  March 27, 2017
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• “The Ego in the Spectacle: Trump’s Inauguration”

  The New York Times
  January 20, 2017
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• “Leading Writers on Donald Trump: Rich Benjamin, Richard Ford, Joyce Carol Oates, Steven Pinker, Jane Smiley”

  The Guardian, Books and Culture
  August 13, 2016
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• “What Makes People Fight Others’ Wars?”

  The Guardian (weekly book review)
  Review of Adam Hochschilds’ SPAIN IN OUR HEARTS
  May 16, 2016
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• “They Protest Too Much”

  New York Times Sunday Book Review
  Review of T Geronimo Johnson’s WELCOME TO BRAGGSVILLE
  March 1, 2015
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• “Shades of Influence”

  New York Times Sunday Book Review
  Review of Hilton Als’ WHITE GIRLS
  November 10, 2013
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• “Zimmerman Verdict A Green Light for Vigilantes”

  Salon.com
  July 14, 2013
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• “Barack Obama: Incidental President”

  Salon
.com
  February 23, 2013
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• “GOP’s White Man Burden”

  Salon.com
  November 7, 2012
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• “Banner Days”: Review of Linda Hirshman’s VICTORY

  New York Times Sunday Book Review, page 1
  June 24, 2012
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• “Up Front Profile: Rich Benjamin”

  New York Times Sunday Book Review

  June 24, 2012
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• “The Gated Community Mentality”

  New York Times

  March 30, 2012

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• “Not Going to the Chapel”

  New York Times
  May 22, 2011


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• “Glenn Beck Cranks Up the Culture Wars”

  CNN.com

  August 31, 2010


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• “Why Haiti Can’t Afford a Rap-Star President”

  Salon.com

  August 10, 2010
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• “Yes, I Love Paying Taxes”

  USA Today

  April 15, 2010
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• “Beyond the Pale: Is White the New Black?”

  The New Yorker

  April 12, 2010
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• “Obama Is Not Over-Reaching – He Needs to Be Even Bolder”

  CNN.com

  January 18, 2010


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• “Journey into the Heart of Whiteness”

  Mother Jones Interview with Rich Benjamin

  January 2009


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• “What Obama’s Nobel Means”

  CNN.com

  December 10, 2009



• “Welcome to Whitopia: Scholar, journalist chronicles time spent in North Idaho”

  Coeur d’Alene Press
  November 16, 2009



• Review: Searching for Whitopia

  Time magazine

  October 26, 2009


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• This Week’s Hot Reads: Searching for Whitopia

  The Daily Beast

  October 19-26, 2009


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• “Whitopia, Idaho”

  The Pacific Northwest Inlander


  October 15-21, 2009





• “America’s Booming White Enclaves: Q&A with Rich Benjamin”

  CNN/Time.com
  October 12, 2009


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• “Road Tripping Through Whitopia”

  In These Times
  March 11, 2009


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• “Recession Porn: A Hard Spot for Soft Times”

  Huffington Post

  February 11, 2009



• “This Nation’s De-Facto Draft Hits Rural America”

  Lone Star Iconoclast

  July 24, 2006



• “How Far Will Street Smarts Get You?”

  Des Moines Register
  May 19, 2005



• “Generation Permalance on the Brink”

  Grand Forks Herald

  March 25, 2005