Denny Carter

'We Know What They Want To Say'

"The fact that I don't believe in their untruthful and wrong ideology scares them."

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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

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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

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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

Fascism and Bad Faith

The Conditioning Of The American Right

Tucker Carlson presents Russian authoritarianism to his audience as a conservative utopia

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The Politics of The Cool Dad

A politics of criticism and shame is a nonstarter in the United States.

When They Admit It

Sometimes sussing out political bad faith requires an oversized corkboard and a ball of yarn and three dozen brightly colored tacks. You run the risk of looking quite unhinged in proving someone is saying something they do not mean to score political points, even when the dots connect. Other times

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There Is No You

The politics of never-ending pleasure favors the right wing and makes democracy (almost) impossible

The Bad Faith Must Be Stopped At Its Source

Donald Trump’s Twitter account was very much like a fire-breathing dragon marauding around your front yard.  You knew the dragon was there, and you knew it was capable of shooting columns of flames out of its yawning mouth at any moment. You tried not to open the curtains

What Would Republicans Do?

It feels wrong and perverse and backward. It makes me squirm both in my seat and in my brain. I do not like this litmus test at all. But I find it helpful in evaluating what is – and what is not – effective politics.  The test – the question – is a simple

The Faith Is Bad But The BFT Readers Are Good

I started 2023 with a smattering of Bad Faith Times readers and subscribers, and after some steady growth, we have a real community around this little publication – folks who see through the mind-numbing disingenuousness of the American right wing. I wanted to thank you all for signing up for