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
'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 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 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 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 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
Raising Men in the Manosphere The date was April 28, 2009. I didn't realize it at the time but this would be the date my life truly began. I wasn't there for the birth of my oldest son, who is technically my stepson though I’ve never seen a difference between
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