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Erica Wagner
Is it right to publish Gabriel García Márquez’s last novel?
...Watchman revealed that Atticus Finch — hitherto perceived as one of the great moral figures of American literature — attended a Ku Klux Klan meeting in his youth; and that he thought efforts to desegregate...
March 1, 2024
Israel-Hamas war
Harvard and Penn presidents try to stem fallout from damaging testimony
...Nikki Haley, the former South Carolina governor, likened the pro-Palestine protests on campuses to marches by the Ku Klux Klan. “This is just as bad,” she said....
December 7, 2023
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
Free LunchMartin Sandbu
China’s green tech surge could turn global climate politics on its head Premium content
...Donald Trump has been charged under the same laws that were written to combat the Ku Klux Klan — that is just one of the many illuminations provided by Sidney Blumenthal’s essay....
January 18, 2024
The FT’s best films, TV shows, podcasts and more of 2023
Best art exhibitions of 2023 — from unrepeatable Vermeer to ubiquitous Picasso
...Philip Guston Tate Modern, London (to February 25) For its violent Ku Klux Klan imagery, Philip Guston was postponed following George Floyd’s murder and the surge of the Black Lives Matter movement....
December 15, 2023
Letter
Letter: Your ‘Birchers’ review used an overbroad brush
..., the Ku Klux Klan and McCarthyism....
May 12, 2023
ReviewBooks
Cahokia Jazz — Francis Spufford’s thrilling leap into alternative history
...The dead white man, a takata named Fred Hopper, was a member of the Ku Klux Klan, and there’s a proliferation of theories to explain what one newspaper calls the “SKYLINE SACRIFICE” — not least because a...
September 27, 2023
FT Live
Business of Entertainment Summit
Capitalizing on Disruption
Thursday, 19 SeptemberLos Angeles, CA
Donald Ayer
The Trump indictment is welcome news for America’s allies
...And the fourth, fittingly brought under the Ku Klux Klan statute enacted after the Civil War to protect against abuse of freed former slaves, alleges the no less appalling conspiracy to deny the civil rights...
August 4, 2023
The indictment of Donald Trump
Trump prosecutor takes his biggest swing yet with 2020 election case
...Among other allegations, Trump is accused of perpetrating a conspiracy to threaten individual rights, based on law first adopted in 1870 to thwart the Ku Klux Klan’s attempts to intimidate voters....
August 2, 2023
ReviewVisual Arts
Philip Guston, Tate Modern — violent, unsettling and thrilling from start to finish
...Postponed from 2020 for fear that Guston’s Ku Klux Klan imagery was too incendiary following the murder of George Floyd, it opened in the US last year with handouts advising on “emotional preparedness” (...
October 5, 2023
Data PointsJohn Burn-Murdoch
Britain is not America — and the right shouldn’t forget it
...The US fought a civil war over slavery, racial segregation was legal in living memory, and the Ku Klux Klan still exists....
May 26, 2023
Louis Bacon
Hedge fund billionaire Louis Bacon awarded $203mn in defamation feud
...The court order said that Nygard had conducted a global smear campaign over almost a decade, falsely asserting that Bacon was a Ku Klux Klan member; that he was guilty of insider trading; that he was implicated...
May 4, 2023
InterviewArts
Podcaster Jon Ronson on his adventures in extremism and the absurd
...“Two weeks after my son was born, I was at a Ku Klux Klan compound. So much for paternity leave.”...
April 19, 2023
FT WealthRhymer Rigby
Why do the wealthy escalate disputes beyond comprehension?
...These include Nygård claiming that Bacon was an arsonist, and allegedly paying protesters at a rally to wear T-shirts and carry signs saying Bacon was a Ku Klux Klan member....
July 13, 2023
The Weekend Essay
Hauser & Wirth: the Swiss gallery that went global
...Hauser & Wirth represents the estate of Philip Guston and put on a show of his work when a retrospective was delayed by the Tate and other museums amid controversy over his Ku Klux Klan paintings....
March 2, 2024
ReviewHistory books
Birchers — cabals, conspiracies and the group that paved the way for Trump
...From the Shays’ and Whiskey rebellions that rocked George Washington’s presidency in the late 18th century to the Know-Nothings of the 1850s, the Ku Klux Klan of the post-bellum South and the red-baiting...
May 2, 2023
FT Live
Business Book of the Year Award 2024
The search for the best business book is under way
Monday, 9 December1 Grosvenor Pl, London SW1X 7HJ, UK
Law
Nygard vs Bacon: how a gated-community feud ended in a $203mn defamation payout
...painting Bacon as a Ku Klux Klan member....
May 8, 2023
The Weekend Essay
The real Rino: Trump vs conservatism
...the Ku Klux Klan and chants of “the Jews will not replace us” had “very fine people on both sides”; secretary of defence Jim Mattis, who saw Trump treat Nato like a mob boss pissed by sluggish payers, and...
September 2, 2023
Jan Dalley
Philip Guston and an art-world comedy of errors
...the subject matter of his series showing Ku Klux Klansmen....
May 13, 2022
News updates from the January 6 hearing: Senior DoJ leaders threatened mass resignation to prevent Trump overturning election, Cheney’s opening presentations stand out and Proud Boys and Oath Keepers play central role
Committee chair accuses Trump of being at centre of ‘attempted coup’
...But in an attempt to put this hearing above partisan mudslinging, he has sought to put last year’s attack in sweeping historical context, comparing it with “slavery, the Ku Klux Klan and lynching”....
June 10, 2022
Legal services
Lawyers use pro bono hours to step up fight for racial justice
...racist harassment from white neighbours and the Ku Klux Klan....
December 6, 2022
ReviewHistory books
The Wrath to Come — American myths and white supremacism
...They were echoed and amplified in extreme rightwing political movements of the Depression years, including the Ku Klux Klan....
July 22, 2022
US Capitol attack
January 6 riot was part of ‘attempted coup’ by Donald Trump, committee alleges
...In an attempt to protect the hearing from partisan mudslinging, Thompson sought to put last year’s attack in sweeping historical context, comparing it with “slavery, the Ku Klux Klan and lynching”....
June 10, 2022
The FT ViewThe editorial board
Hacktivism can help Ukraine, within limits
...Anonymous, the hacktivist collective that has previously hacked several governments as well as Isis and the Ku Klux Klan, has also said it is targeting Russia....
March 8, 2022
ReviewNon-Fiction
You Don’t Know Us Negroes — Zora Neale Hurston, the great American provocateur
...Indeed, at times Hurston — who witnessed the resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan, the popularity of eugenics and fierce resistance to black civil rights — carries herself with mesmerising confidence: “Sometimes...
April 14, 2022
ObituaryFilm
Sidney Poitier, actor, 1927-2022
...In summer 1964, he accompanied musician Harry Belafonte to deliver $70,000 to activists in Greenwood, Mississippi; on arrival, they were chased while driving by the Ku Klux Klan....
January 7, 2022

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