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Denny Carter

Denny Carter

Fascism: An Expression of Gut-Wrenching Fear

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

'We Know What They Want To Say'

'We Know What They Want To Say'

We’ve reached the part of America’s red-pilling where any time anything bad happens anywhere in the world, it reinforces the legitimacy of white supremacy. That’s right folks. Any time a plane crashes or a train derails or – as happened in Baltimore this week – a bridge collapses after

The Beautiful, Maddening Naivety of Stephen Breyer

The Beautiful, Maddening Naivety of Stephen Breyer

That there are untold millions of well-meaning people who lack any semblance of a bad-faith argument detector is painfully obvious to you, the Bad Faith Times reader. The central conceit of this publication is that public officials and opinion shapers on the left operate under an unshakeable presumption of good

We Are Drowning In Propaganda

We Are Drowning In Propaganda

My dad, during our daily phone conversations based mostly on the day’s sports happenings, never fails to mention Something He Saw Online Today. This something, he always prefaces, may or may not be real. It’s probably fake. But it seems sorta real, and it was shared on his

This Week In Bad Faith

This Week In Bad Faith

I’ve wanted to write a wrap-up sort of column for a while now. I consume a lot of news – grinding my molars listening to NPR on the way to the kids’ school and reading the New York Times and Washington Post until I become one with my existential terror

The Infrastructure of a Bad-Faith Political Attack

The Infrastructure of a Bad-Faith Political Attack

Lawmakers, media outlets, scientific journals, everyday folks: They’re all starting to recognize the mountain of bad faith that is the anti-abortion movement. Hopefully, it’s not too late. Since the radically right-wing Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, there’s been a burgeoning consciousness that the entire

The Conditioning Of The American Right

The Conditioning Of The American Right

The funniest part of Tucker Carlson going all the way to Russia to visit a grocery store is that he’s definitely never shopped at an American grocery store. The living embodiment of the country club Republican – the heir of William Buckley’s New England-style fascism, so prim and proper