The Unstoppable Incoherence of Fascism
Fascists have no real politics. They have no platform. And that's to their great advantage.
Denny Carter
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'
"The fact that I don't believe in their untruthful and wrong ideology scares them."
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