The Last Stand at Steve Bannon's "Gladiator School"
Save this story for later. At a café in a mountain town east of Rome, Benjamin Harnwell was wondering which of the five thousand applicants to his right-wing âgladiator schoolâ he could introduce to a reporter without embarrassment. He thought of four, and dialled one up. âA journalist is looking to speak to some students,â he said into the phone, âand I donât want him to wind up talking to some skinhead.â He listened, a religious medal rattling against his chest, his slicked-back hair shining. Harnwell hung up, saying that heâd been kidding about th...