“The black pill is a dark but gleeful nihilism: the system is corrupt, and its collapse is inevitable. There is no hope. Times are bad and they’re going to get worse.

In “Black Pill,” the journalist Elle Reeve finds that the once-fringe alt-right is dead — because now it’s mainstream.

‘Black Pill’ is a disturbing look at how ‘meme magic’ captured the GOP Elle Reeve’s deeply reported book explores the slippery irony and dangerous absurdities at the heart of what was ...