The Week - USA (2021-11-26)

ARTS

23 Books

Jay Caspian Kang dissects

Asian-American identity

24 Author of the week

Damon Galgut on South

Africa’s complex reality

25 Art & Music

Hans Holbein’s hyper-

realistic portraits

26 Film

Director Jane

Campion

returns with a

savage, slow-

burn Western

NEWS

4 Main stories

Steve Bannon charged with

contempt of Congress;

no fi rm pledges at U.N.

climate change summit

6 Controversy of the week

Can the Biden

administration do

anything to combat

rocketing infl ation?

7 The U.S. at a glance

The legal battle over

Biden’s vaccine mandate;

Rep. Liz Cheney booted

from the Wyoming GOP

8 The world at a glance

Austria locks down the

unvaccinated; a plague of

scorpions in Egypt

10 People

Sarah Jessica Parker on

ageist double standards;

Jamie Dornan’s dislike of

the modeling life

12 Briefi ng

Do the rich pay a fair

share of America’s taxes?

14 Best U.S. columns

The warning in Europe’s

Covid surge; NYC’s law-

and-order mayor

16 Best European

columns

Why Belarus is funneling

migrants toward the EU

18 Talking points

Sen. Josh Hawley worries

about American men;

founding an “unwoke”

university; violent

rhetoric and the GOP

LEISURE

28 Food & Drink

Chefs cooking with wit

and whimsy; American

tributes to British beer

29 Travel

Tracing Dante’s footsteps

in northern Italy; a semi-

secret California garden

BUSINESS

32 News at a glance

More Americans join the

Great Resignation; Pfi zer’s

generic Covid pill deal

33 Making money

Credit card debt is going

up again; the fast- rising

price of health insurance

34 Best columns

The fall and rise of the

conglomerate; an IPO

backed by Big Government

A migrant camp on the Polish-Belarusian border (p.16)

Sarah Jessica

Parker (p.10)

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Laugh at Steve Bannon. Go ahead. Snigger at his grizzled, un-

kempt, soup- kitchen mien and his multiple layers of XXL dress

shirts. Roll your eyes at the ogre’s vainglorious rhetoric. “I’m

never backing down,” Bannon said after appearing in court

this week on contempt charges for defying a subpoena from

the House’s Jan. 6 special committee. “We’re taking down the

Biden regime.” (See Main Stories.) Who’s we? The populist, na-

tivist movement Bannon helped launch and shape a decade

ago through the gleefully racist, misogynistic, and rabidly anti-

immigrant website Breitbart.com. In 2015, Bannon harnessed that

movement to a New York City real estate mogul named Donald

Trump. He’s “a blunt instrument for us,” Bannon explained.

For his central role in propelling Trump to the White House,

Bannon was rewarded with a West Wing job as chief strategist;

after a big falling-out, a Bannon indictment for alleged fraud on

a failed border-wall project, and a Trump pardon, Bannon re-

turned to Trump’s circle after the 2020 election. He joined a

“war room” of loons and opportunists who told the humiliated

president that yes, the election had been stolen and that the re-

sults could be overturned. On a Jan. 5 podcast, Bannon advised

his populist army: “Strap in. All hell is going to break loose.”

What did he know about the violent attack on the Capitol the

next day—and who else knew it? The House committee would

like to ask him those questions under oath. Naturally, Bannon

has refused to testify. With the Volk behind him, he need not

bow to the elite’s silly norms, laws, and subpoenas. “We’re tak-

ing over school boards,” a defiant Bannon said. “We’re taking

over the Republican Party with the precinct committee strategy.

Suck on this!” Jan. 6 was but the first skirmish; the war has just

begun. “Stand by,” Bannon advised the Volk as he livestreamed

outside the courthouse. “We’re going to go on

offense.” Go ahead and laugh.

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