Dog Days of Summer Are Gone Again

Michelle Goldberg profiles Daryle Jenkins, who's taken on the complicated task of trying to explain the antifa movement, a loose network of militant left-wing anti-fascist activists who often physically confront their opponents, to outsiders. Aisha Harris headed down to the Dixie Stampede, Dolly Parton's "Medieval Times–style dine-in attraction where seven nights a week and at occasional weekend matinees, the South rises again." Last week, OkCupid proudly boasted that it had banned Christopher Cantwell, the white supremacist who became widely known after the Charlottesville, Virginia, rallies. Christina Cauterucci points out that the dating service has long welcomed racists like Cantwell and that overall banning them won't make dating sites any safer. Isaac Chotiner debates Mark Lilla, liberal scholar and author of The Once and Future Liberal: After Identity Politics, about why Democrats keep losing elections.