Bad Faith Times

Sign in Subscribe

Denny Carter

Denny Carter

Elon Musk And The Gates of Bad-Faith Hell

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

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

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

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