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Citi, Citi and Arc Design and other marks used herein are service marks of Citigroup Inc. or its affiliates, used and registered throughout the world. Comments “TOUCHING, INTIMATE, POWERFUL” —THE GUARDIAN (UK) of the Middle East February 6–19, 2017 The first-ever editor-in-chief of ‘Vogue Arabia’ is literally a priness. ® FASHIONspring By Amy Larocca featuring Naomie Harris in the glow of Moonlight and Jessica Lange plays Steinem, Kahlo, de Beauvoir, Mae West, and more. a portfolio by Sandro (The Beheaded) Queen of Vogue Paris by joan juliet buck (The Real) Princess of Vogue Arabia by amy larocca Viva Fleabag by noreen malone Stan Smith, Human Shoe by lauren schwartzberg plus What Is Trumpism, B Y PHOTOGRAPH BY Really? AMY LAROCCA DINA LITOVSKY by jonathan chait 45 The Anna Wintour Anna The 1 Trump may say that his main goal is demonstrations to date. Let’s not forget to bring jobs and safety to all Ameri- that American culture wars, since the cans, but he’s actually waging “a culture 1920s, have always been as much about war sold through chimerical economic women’s rights and ‘imperiled’ masculin- and security gains,” Jonathan Chait wrote ity as about white nationalism.” And in his latest column for the magazine Judith Zinn, a clinical social worker, took (“The True Purpose of Trumpism,” issue with Chait’s characterization of February 6–19). Stephen Prothero, author Trump’s “troubled-adolescent behavior of Why Liberals Win the Culture Wars pattern.” “This understates the magnitude (Even When They Lose Elections), appre- of Mr. Trump’s issues,” she wrote. “In my ciated Chait’s attention to this aspect of 30-plus years as a practicing psycho- the president’s appeal. “As persistent as therapist, I have never encountered America’s culture wars are proclamations anyone displaying the combination of of their demise. So I was glad to see Jona- symptoms manifested by Mr. Trump. than Chait reckon with Trump as a culture Had I met with someone displaying the warrior,” he wrote. “No, culture wars are grandiosity, paranoia, and pathological not just about sex. Neither are they new. lying, along with a host of other aberrant MAR 16—26 The election of 1800 turned on efforts to behaviors, exhibited by Mr. Trump, I label Thomas Jefferson an infidel and would have deemed that person to be a 887 even a Muslim. Next came efforts to ban- poor candidate for psychotherapy.” ish Catholics and Mormons from the EX MACHINA American family. Like Trumpism, our 2 For the “Spring Fashion” issue, Amy prior culture wars have been weaponized Larocca profiled the new editor of CREATED AND PERFORMED by anxiety and anger over forms of life that Vogue Arabia, Princess Deena Aljuhani BY ROBERT LEPAGE are passing away. What makes Trumpist Abdulaziz (“The Anna Wintour of the nostalgia so powerful is its combination of Middle East,” February 6–19), prompting religion and ethnicity—its effort to pit this response from Philip Seib, author of white Christians against everybody else.” The Al Jazeera Effect: “As Abdulaziz and But Micaela di Leonardo, a professor of your article make clear, women in the Arab BAM.org anthropology at Northwestern, argued world should not be viewed as if they were that Chait’s definition of Trumpism left aliens from outer space. Their culture may 718.636.4100 women out of the equation: “Trump’s be different than that of the West, but they TICKETS START AT $35 misogyny is at least as consequential as possess the intelligence and aspirations to his racism—both in terms of voter exercise positive influence within their motivations, and because of the sheer societies. During this time when numbers and energy of the multiracial, Islamophobes spew mindless hatred, LGBTQ-inclusive, feminist anti-Trump articles such as this are useful in deflating the myths that too often attach to Arab life.” Some readers, though, took issue with how, as Larocca wrote, “Abdulaziz declined to comment on political issues several times over the course of our meeting, insisting that she does not view her role that way.” Yet, as commenter kitteneye pointed out, “she would not be the first Middle Easterner to toe a delicate political line while interacting with the West.” 3 Lauren Schwartzberg went to Hilton Head, South Carolina, to meet Stan Smith, the mustachioed former tennis champ whom people primarily know as the namesake of the iconic (and oft- imitated) Adidas sneaker (“The Kids Think I’m a Shoe,” February 6–19).