Fascism and Bad Faith

Our politics will never recover from COVID. The COVID-19 pandemic was the first time in modern history Americans were asked to make sacrifices for their fellow citizen, and the request turned millions of otherwise-normal people into raving mad lunatics, driving them headlong into the nation’s ascendant fascist movement – a

I was on my way to a ski lodge in Quebec, desperately trying to avoid a maze of potholes on a snowy, slick road, my kids excitedly chatting in the backseat, my wife giving me directions, when the radio grabbed my attention with a report so foreign I nearly drove

We all have a little fascist in us, begging to get out. Since we were children we've been told – sometimes implicitly, sometimes explicitly – that the most successful among us understand the situation. What situation is that? Any situation. The short term, the long term, the immediate, the hypothetical

They're not going to require violence next time. Next time, suburban fascists are not going to need to gas up their private planes and fly to D.C. and descend upon the Capitol. Next time, it will be easy. The coming Republican coup is going to be executed