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Podcast: Black and White

Fabricating Consensus

The Global Crisis of the Center Right

Podcast: Meet The Beatles

Podcast: Spider-Man's Libertarian Roots

The Sexual Subtext of Spider-Man

Podcast: Abolitionist Lessons for a Post-Roe World

How a Remnant Can Rule

Podcast: Bob Dole, Warts and All

Podcast: Greenwald Strikes Back

The Two Bob Doles

Notes for the World After Roe

Podcast: What Happened to Glenn Greenwald?

What will become of Twitter?

Podcast: Ghislaine Maxwell and Useful Monsters

You Don’t, in Fact, Have to Hand it to Mussolini 

Glenn Greenwald Is Tucker Carlson’s PR Man

Podcast: We’ll Always Have... Paris

Sympathy for the Devil?

Podcast: Something To Be

60 Minutes Helps Andrew Sullivan’s Whitewashing

Podcast: Bari Weiss and the Potemkin University

Weekend Recommendations

Podcast: Why Critics Are Wrong About Eternals 

GOP Values

Podcast: Orbán's Outreach

Is Facebook a Criminal Enterprise?

Podcast: Losing the Suburbs

The New York Times Fooled Again

Mob Lawyer

Weekend Recommendations

Podcast: The Dune Abides

You Don't, in Fact, Have to Hand it to Putin

Podcast: A Disease of Empire

Artist of Dune

Podcast: Manchin’s Machinations and Sinema’s Schemes

MAGA Meets Magyar

Nationalist Internationalism, Then and Now

Podcast: David Shor’s “Popularism” 

Politico's Toxic New Owners

Podcast: Savage’s Sexual Politics

The Federalist Society's Silent Brush Off

Podcast: The Eternals, or, Return of the Gods

Ozy Media and the Trouble with Safe Diversity

Podcast: William Randolph Hearst, Radical and Reactionary

Facebook’s Firestorm 

Dune Bugs

Regarding Henry Kissinger

Podcast: The Reagan Devolution

Two Views of the Next Coup

Podcast: Steve Ditko, Spider-Man, And Ayn Rand

Podcast: The Stuffed Shirts and the Roughnecks

Ostracise John Eastman

A Holistic History

Podcast: How the Pandemic Is Changing Politics

Coup and Countercoup

Podcast: Carpetbaggers in Eastern Europe

Clubby Monsters: Jeffrey Epstein, Steve Bannon, and Michael Wolff

America’s War Through Afghan Eyes

Robert E. Lee Loses Again

Podcast: The Long Shadow of 9/11

The End of Roe and the Rise of Vigilantes

Madison Cawthorn's Threat

The Establishment's Afghanistan Myths

Podcast: The Cinematic Middle Ages

Lies About Afghanistan

Podcast: What Happened to Naomi Wolf?

Tilting at Franco

Podcast: The Hidden History of Religious Authoritarianism

Funding a Cruise through Autocracy

Podcast: Remembering Anthony Bourdain

Authoritarian Tourism

Is Trump's Stranglehold on the GOP Weakening?

Podcast: George Packer vs the Millennial Left

The Fake Hillbilly Versus the Cat Ladies

Civil War Games

Is the Right Splintering on Anti-Vax?

Merrick Garland, Defender of Elite Impunity

Podcast: Spencer Ackerman on Extremism in the American Military

Biden Turns His Back on Voting Rights

Podcast: How Not to Defend the Catholic Church

Trump's January 6 Myth Is All About Revenge

Of Patriots and Back-Stabbers

Podcast: The Felonious Fan Club

The Forgotten History of "Rumsfeld the Stud"

The GOP is Targeting LGBTQ Education 

Podcast: Cosby, Rumsfeld, and Elite Impunity

Extremists in the Military Have a Friend in Fox

Podcast: Allan Bloom and the Conservative Closet

Podcast: How to Fight the anti-CRT Moral Panic

The Right Versus the Military

Counter-Terrorism Tactics Can’t Defeat the Insurgent Right

Podcast: Rick Perlstein on Moral Panic and Public Education

Tucker Carlson Is a Made Man

Podcast and Gallery: William Randolph Hearst, Populism, and the Funny Pages

Podcast: The Future of the Left

Freedom to Teach in North Carolina

The Cost of Bipartisanship

Embracing McCarthyism

Sunday Treat: Gender Panic in 1918

Critical Race Theory And "The Children"

Democrats Are Scurrying Away From The Fight For Democracy

Podcast: Mass Graves and Indigenous Resistance

Contra the Covid Contrarians

The Coup Next Time

Morality Tales

Vaccine Hoarding is the Real Biden Scandal

Is the GOP War on Democracy Self-Defeating?

Critical Race Theory as a Bogeyman

Biden's Democracy Dilemma

Trumpists Haven't Given Up on Military Coups

Podcast: The Deep Roots of GOP Extremism

Is Biden Punting on Voting Rights?

Glenn Greenwald's Selective Skepticism

Beatnik Phrenology

Racism and the Paradox of Anti-Democratic Populism

Jeffrey Epstein, Bill Gates and the Scandals We Don't See

Covid in India

Podcast: Should We Burn Philip Roth?

Andrew Sullivan's Free Speech Hypocrisy

UFOs and the Pentagon Budget

Podcast: Philip Roth, Control Freak

Two Paths to a Military Coup

Dr. Doom as Leviathan

The Private Spy Agency and the Clown Coup

David Horowitz: Losing Friends, Keeping Donors

Cheney's Cold War Nostalgia Is No Alternative to Trumpism

Never Trump or Forever Trump?

Celebrating a Wife Killer

Liz Cheney and the Never Trump Fantasy

Tax the Gates Fortune

The Intersectional CIA?

The Reactionary International

Can We Bring Back Blogging?

Embarrassing Fans of the Super-Rich

Fighting Vaccine Imperialism

George W. Bush, Coward

Has Andrew Sullivan Read Darwin?

Tucker Carlson Should Own His Homophobia

There Is More Than One Blake Bailey Scandal

How Not to Mourn George Floyd

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