A Horrifying Heaping of Anti-Abortion Good Faith When the right deals in good faith, we must listen. It reveals everything about their actual goals and clarifies the stakes for this and future elections.
The Legitimation of Violence Should Scare Us All Violence has and always will be a central part of any successful fascist movement, largely because intimidation is necessary when such a small portion of the population supports your hideous policy goals, as much as those exist in a fascist movement.
Americans Are Seeing Through RFK's Bad Faith I'll be upfront with you – I'm always upfront with you – and say I fretted quite a bit last year about Robert Kennedy, Jr. playing spoiler for Joe Biden in his reelection bid. I thought for a while RFK's entrance into the race was all
Elon Musk And The Gates of Bad-Faith Hell It was so terribly easy to predict if one understands the mindset of the bad-faith free speech warrior, the brave First Amendment enjoyer who pretends all speech is equally good and bad because that's the only way to funnel hateful ideology into the cultural and political mainstream. When
The Unstoppable Incoherence of Fascism This is the second in a series analyzing The Anatomy of Fascism. Click here to read Part One. Our sixth grade class election was a bitter affair. It pitted a bookish girl named Beth against my buddy Kevin, a jovial, popular class clown who surprised us all when he answered
It's Time For Left-Wing Wrestlemania Politics The snobbish part of me – the part that wants at all times to tell people what they like is actually bad – desperately wants to disparage all things WWE. I want to call it lowbrow and idiotic, a children’s spectacle for people (men, mostly) who have never grown up. Once
Fascism: An Expression of Gut-Wrenching Fear I’m halfway through Robert O. Paxton’s The Anatomy of Fascism and I take no pleasure in reporting the United States is checking a lot of fascist boxes. Too many. Way too many. Sometimes I find myself squirming in my seat as I read the timely tome, hoping – praying