conflation

What felt absurd in 2013 looks uncannily familiar now: the obsession with purity, the conflation of wellness with luxury, the belief that food is never just food but a lifestyle choice, a status symbol, a moral performance.

This conflation of gender orthodoxy with American prosperity is popular for a frustratingly simple reason: A politics which refuses to engage with a rigorous economic analysis in the face of parabolic wealth and income inequality has no choice but to attribute the creeping void of American precarity to cultural explanations instead.

His professional unease is echoed by the novel’s gently surreal bending of time and space and its metaphorical conflation of life and film.

And the successful conflation of “Palestinian” with “terrorist” was all it took for some Americans to embrace Donald Trump’s suggestion that Gaza should be cleared of its people and turned into the “Riviera of the Middle East” for Israelis, Americans, and foreign tourists.

We ended up with 31,000 noncitizens of Japanese, German, and Italian descent who were put into camps based principally on their ancestry or the conflation of their ethnicity with disloyalty and dangerousness.