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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"Basically Church Type Stuff:" Old Timey Christian Americanism and the Rhizomatic History of American Fascism
Or, the crucial but sometimes fuzzy distinction between a) being a White American Christian, and b) being influenced by a violent, White Christian Supremacist variety of conspiratorial, antisemitic American Fascism known as "Christian Identity." I find myself worrying about the threat of democracy-corroding political violence much more than
PragerU's Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad History
The outfit that's making historical content for Trump's White House and America's youth has a history of doing history that has a fairly loose relationship with the truth
In 2003 a Collector of Kooky Cold War Shit Got to Rummage Around in Walter Huss's Library: Here's Her Story
A window into Walter's world in its twilight years, and some thoughts about why people like me and that bookseller (and maybe you too?) find right wing kooks like Huss so morbidly compelling
Walter Huss's Political Paranoia, and My Own
What if they really were/are out to get you as they transform the country into an authoritarian hellscape?