Why Conservative “Slippery Slope” arguments undermine American democracy (and have always been…
I’ve taught a course on the History of American Conservatism for seven years now, and I’ve become increasingly aware of how central…
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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The outfit that's making historical content for Trump's White House and America's youth has a history of doing history that has a fairly loose relationship with the truth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?
Why Tim Walz's "mind your own damn business" message is kryptonite to the MAGA movement
What if those people who are different from you aren't part of some nefarious "Communist" conspiracy, but are just people in a free country who are [heaven forefend!] different from you?