At TRI, my commentary on the University of Washington shooting, Milo Yiannopoulos, postmodernism, and the alt right begins this way:
“A protester was shot at the University of Washington during a clash between rival factions — one faction physically blocking an audience from hearing a speech, the other faction seeking to hear a rabble-rousing orator.
“The orator was Milo Yiannopoulos, a leading spokesman for the alt-right movement, a revitalized and muscularized version of nationalist and populist politics long submerged in American politics.
“Outside the auditorium, blocs of red-wearing Trump supporters and black-wearing anarchists and others faced each other (unconsciously updating Stendhal’s novel The Red and the Black.) The man who was shot was apparently a peacemaker, placing himself in the middle of the verbally-abusing and pushing-and-shoving factions. …”
I would change that last line to “genuinely classic liberal-education alternative.” Liberals today are more aligned with Marxists.
& since the comments are collecting here, consider that while Sen. Moynihan has more name recognition, Bernard Baruch had it right the first time:
http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/everyone_is_entitled_to_his_own_opinion_but_not_his_own_facts