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Why archival research matters: The power of a single document
When you accuse a former chair of a state Republican Party of having neo-Nazi ties, it's important to have receipts. Luckily, Walter Huss left behind a huge stack of them.
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Rightlandia: It's not just a far right fever dream in the mind of Oregon's Walter Huss anymore
That's right, it's also a Substack newsletter (and eventually a book)!
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“‘The public…will not decide wrong, unless it decides too hastily’: Revisiting Thomas Paine’s…
[Note: This is the largely unrevised text of a talk I gave at this conference at Iona College in October 2018. The “PP” marks in the text…
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“In your guts, you know he’s nuts:” Right wing Extremism in the GOP, 1964 and today
As the 1964 Republican convention approached, many political observers warned that right-wing extremists were about to take over the Grand…
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Hamberder lovers vs. “burg-tards:” An analogy for life in Donald Trump’s America
I’ve been trying to come up with an analogy that captures my experience of living through the Age of Trump, and I think I found a so-so…
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Transcript of President Trump’s Good Friday Corona-Rally. April 10, 2020.
Jesus was a man who was treated very unfairly, very roughly, by pilots, by seizures, by everybody really. There was even an advisor named…
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Can Eric Trump Even Hear Himself Speak?
There’s a good chance that in 13 months, Eric will be the son of a former President who traded on his father’s name and position to make…
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That time I tried to engage with someone from The Federalist as if they gave a shit about anything…
Ok, this is going to be embarrassing for me, but here it goes anyway. Back in June of 2017 I, a stupid person, thought that, based on…
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What I learned from my Twitter jail sentence
I spent the day today in Twitter jail. Punishments are supposed to teach people lessons, so here’s my effort to extract a lesson from the…
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Yes, Americans did refer to the nation as a “democracy” and not just a republic in the founding…
Neither the word “democracy” nor any of its cognates appeared in Thomas Paine’s Common Sense (1776), one of the most radically populist…
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Dateline: September 6, 2068. The Original Text of the Historic, Billings Address
The Perpetually Failing New York Times has acquired the original, handwritten notes for what has come to be known as President Trump’s…