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The people love their podcasts, so I figured I'd babble about my Bad Faith Times articles on a semi-frequent pod that will be available to paying BFT supporters. The first episode of the BFT pod, however, will be freely available to everyone. Maybe you'll be into

John Roberts’ lifelong mission to erase the gains of the Civil Rights movement is nearly complete. Pay no mind to Roberts’ ruling in a recent case brought to the Supreme Court by the vast and insidious far-right legal project bent on nullifying the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Roberts and

The smoke from faraway wildfires had begun to waft into the Maryland suburbs in the dying light of a late-spring evening and my son wanted to know what the hell was going on. Eastern Canada is on fire, I told him, and the smoke from these unprecedented wildfires has blanketed

There’s an accelerational aspect to capitalism that – quite conveniently for capital – is invisible to people living within the system. It is as felt by the subjects of capital as it is unseen. It is destructive, yet unopposed. The acceleration is not toward the future, not toward something better and

I have what you might call an earnestness detector: I can and always have been able to tell when someone is saying what they mean, dealing in unsullied good faith, and when someone is crafting narratives with a foundation of bad faith, arguments they do not mean but must deploy

In my youth, I was a libertarian – sort of. Not a full-blown “public roads are tyranny” libertarian, but I had a strong presumption that government action was bad unless proven otherwise. One of the things that persuaded me in that direction was Penn and Teller’s show, Bullshit. It was