Angela Nagle

Alt-right and culture wars Nagle's book Kill All Normies: Online Culture Wars from 4chan and Tumblr to Trump and the Alt-Right discusses the role of the internet in the rise of the alt-right and incel movements. She describes the alt-right as a counterculture of young men who reject taboos on race and gender.

The book received many positive reviews, and Nagle became a welcome commentator on the topic of online culture wars. Another New York Times contributor, Michelle Goldberg, wrote that Kill All Normies had "captured this phenomenon". Novelist George Saunders listed Kill All Normies as one of his ten favorite books. Fusion TV's documentary Trumpland: Kill All Normies directed by Leighton Woodhouse was based on the Nagle's book.

In May 2018, The Daily Beast and Libcom.org accused Nagle of "sloppy sourcing", including not citing sources and drawing heavily from Wikipedia and RationalWiki. Nagle and her publisher both issued detailed statements rebutting the accusations, and The Daily Beast adjusted some of the article's wording. The Nation responded with an essay in which author Atossa Araxia Abrahamian criticizes Nagle and others who, according to Abrahamian, hold similar views, like economist Larry Summers, author John Judis, and Hillary Clinton. Abrahamian states that "it’s hard not to think that it’s arguments like [Nagle's] that damage the left by legitimizing the idea that someone arbitrarily born on the wrong side of a line is less deserving of a good life."

Writing in The Independent, Slovenian philosopher and academic Slavoj Žižek commented on the "ferocious attacks on Angela Nagle for her outstanding essay." American cultural theorist and author Catherine Liu defended Nagle, considering her to be "one of the brightest lights in a new generation of left writers and thinkers who have declared their independence from intellectual conformity". In the summer of 2020, Nagle and Michael Tracey co-wrote a long-form piece in the journal American Affairs.