The Conditioning Of The American Right
Tucker Carlson presents Russian authoritarianism to his audience as a conservative utopia
Denny Carter
The Politics of The Cool Dad
I’m going to break some news here and tell you human beings don’t like to be critiqued.
I once coached a flag football team that included kids with various degrees of athletic experience and prowess, and quickly learned (the hard way) that my messaging to these children had
When They Admit It
Sometimes sussing out political bad faith requires an oversized corkboard and a ball of yarn and three dozen brightly colored tacks. You run the risk of looking quite unhinged in proving someone is saying something they do not mean to score political points, even when the dots connect.
Other times
There Is No You
It was an icy, ultra-realist lyric that rang out of my little car’s speakers in college. The words made me feel mature and wise and, frankly, smug as shit.
“There is no you,” Trent Reznor growls in the Nine Inch Nails song, Only, “there is only me.”
Maybe Reznor
The Bad Faith Must Be Stopped At Its Source
Donald Trump’s Twitter account was very much like a fire-breathing dragon marauding around your front yard.
You knew the dragon was there, and you knew it was capable of shooting columns of flames out of its yawning mouth at any moment. You tried not to open the curtains and
What Would Republicans Do?
It feels wrong and perverse and backward. It makes me squirm both in my seat and in my brain. I do not like this litmus test at all. But I find it helpful in evaluating what is – and what is not – effective politics.
The test – the question – is a simple
The Faith Is Bad But The BFT Readers Are Good
I started 2023 with a smattering of Bad Faith Times readers and subscribers, and after some steady growth, we have a real community around this little publication – folks who see through the mind-numbing disingenuousness of the American right wing.
I wanted to thank you all for signing up for the