This blog post started as a 12-minute video. If you prefer to listen (or you want to see my pretty green and gold office) you can see it here. A few examples of increasingly outrageous lies from the past week: Republican Congressman Andrew Clyde, in talking about what happened at the Capitol on January 6th, …
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As with my post last Sunday, this blog post started out as a video. You can see it here. What follows is an [edited] transcript. This week I want to talk about totalitarianism—which is something we don’t talk about enough. There is an aspect to totalitarianism that helps explain a lot of what we are …
This blog post started out as a YouTube video. What follows is an [edited] transcription. A few days ago, Republican Senator Ted Cruz published an Op Ed in the Wall Street Journal, and Tweeted the conclusion: Social media understood right away this was a stunning admission that Ted Cruz takes corporate money in exchange for …
If you’re like my followers on Twitter, you’re curious about the Rudy Giuliani search warrant. What the search of Giuliani’s premises tells us is that the prosecutors had probable cause to believe that a crime was committed and that the search they wanted to do would turn up evidence of that crime. To get a …
I wrote this piece for The Washington Post. You can read it on the The Washington Post website, or read it here: The Republican Party is caught in a spiral of radicalization: Having alienated moderates and corporate donors, some prominent GOP figures are turning to grass roots funding from the more radical segment of its …
What struck me this week was the stunning magnitude and sheer audacity of some of the lies coming from Republican Leaders. I’ll give a few examples. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green tweeted this after the Derick Chauvin verdict: Her tweet proven false in real time as residents of DC read her Tweet, looked around, and posted …
Last night, Professor Heather Cox Richardson ended her thought-provoking Letter from An American with this: “Last month, six in ten Republicans in a Reuters/Ipsos poll said they believed the election was stolen. Where do Republican lawmakers think this is going to end?” Heather Cox Richardson is the author of: So her question comes from someone …
This morning I gave a talk to this group: Here is an [edited] transcription of the talk along with citations and a list of sources at the end. The title of this talk is “What We Learn from the History of the Second Amendment.” The history of the Second Amendment of course includes the history …
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Once more, this is a transcription of a video I recorded. I find it easier to record a video, and then publish a transcript. The question I’ll be exploring is whether Trump incited a riot under the D.C. Code. (Sources at the end). Washington DC attorney general Karl Racines said that he’s looking into whether …
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This is a transcription of a video I recorded. I’m finding it easier to first record a video on a topic, and then edit the video. It turns out that talking for 9 minutes is easier than writing 3 pages. Who knew? (You can see the video here) Remember after Trump’s second impeachment trial, Senator …
