How the right weaponised the “vibe shift”
What’s brewing in America isn’t a cultural turn – it’s a political catastrophe.
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Lee Siegel
Lee Siegel is a New Statesman columnist. His eighth book, Nothing Alien: Writings 1989 - 2024, will be published this May.
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