
Amid turmoil at a civil rights group, our reporter looks at a deeper question: When does a hate-watch effort help expose and diminish hate, and when might it instead harden America's stiff divides?
Once a Democrat living in rural Kansas, Evan Mulch sought to wrench wisdom out of his daily life by reading and debating a full array of moral philosophies.
But one day, he stopped looking. “You can only go down so many rabbit holes,” he says.
He found his philosophical home at the archconservative John Birch Society, which is undergoing a renaissance in the Trump era.