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American Inertia
Why Structural Weakness, Not Activist Excess, Keeps Repeating the Crisis
Feb 19
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Steward Beckham
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Jesse Jackson's America
The civil rights dream and the systems that learned to profit from its language.
Feb 17
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The West After the End of History
Soft Power Didn’t Die. It Changed Clothes.
Feb 16
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Reality Checking The Bulwark
Jan 31
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Steward Beckham
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Evan Stern
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Does it feel like America hates its women?
Dec 4, 2025
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SNAP, Crackle, Gone
Oct 29, 2025
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Nothing Here Looked Like Conflict
Jan 13
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The Echo Economy
Nov 7, 2025
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Abolish ICE
Jan 15
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Are we just in another moment of baseless hopium?
Rights and structural betrayals are not games but lessons about humanity and believing false narratives.
Feb 13
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Scoreboard Democracy
On Gallup and the privilege of someone looking at America as a poll to be interpreted.
Feb 12
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The Country That Wouldn’t Say the Word
How avoiding race hollowed out the fight for democracy.
Feb 9
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A Presidency of Racist Memes
The heart of American seppuku.
Feb 6
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When the Money Question Ate Reconstruction
How the Panic of 1873 split parties, regions, and the promise of Reconstruction.
Feb 5
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The Split-Screen Republic
Federalism, civic courage, and the long shadow of state power.
Feb 4
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Reset and Catch Up
See you on Wednesday after a short break.
Feb 2
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Reality Checking The Bulwark
Conservative failures already destroyed the Republican Party. We must not allow them to destroy our own.
Jan 31
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Steward Beckham
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Evan Stern
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Reality Checking the Bulwark — Episode 2
Jasmine Crockett, Matt Rogers, Bowen Yang, and the imaginary radical left.
Feb 17
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Steward Beckham
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Evan Stern
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Reality Checking the Bulwark — Episode 1
Our new series course-correcting the Bulwark
Feb 9
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Steward Beckham
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Evan Stern
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1:24:59
Please Stop Saying This Isn’t the Country You Recognize
Watch now | And some more housekeeping.
Jan 30
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4:38
The Democratic Party Moving Forward w/ Steward Beckham
A recording from Steward Beckham and Evan Stern's live video
Jan 29
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Steward Beckham
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Evan Stern
8
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1:58:56
Stew on This 🤝 Certain Thoughts LIVE
A recording from Steward Beckham and Evan Stern's live video
Jan 23
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Steward Beckham
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Evan Stern
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1:42:52
Stew'd Over
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American Inertia
Why Structural Weakness, Not Activist Excess, Keeps Repeating the Crisis
Feb 19
•
Steward Beckham
17
6
The West After the End of History
Soft Power Didn’t Die. It Changed Clothes.
Feb 16
•
Steward Beckham
12
2
4
Scoreboard Democracy
On Gallup and the privilege of someone looking at America as a poll to be interpreted.
Feb 12
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Steward Beckham
18
1
3
The Country That Wouldn’t Say the Word
How avoiding race hollowed out the fight for democracy.
Feb 9
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Steward Beckham
20
5
The Split-Screen Republic
Federalism, civic courage, and the long shadow of state power.
Feb 4
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Steward Beckham
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4
Stew'd On Screen
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Black America in a Jar
On scrutiny, silence-as-unity, and the politics of being watched.
Jan 16
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Does it feel like America hates its women?
BONUS: You should watch All Her Fault on Peacock.
Dec 4, 2025
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3
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Quiet, Piggie...and Other Tales of Centrist Delusion
BONUS: A House of Dynamite movie reflections.
Nov 21, 2025
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Hopium, Myth, and the Monster We Know
Bonus: 30 for 30, American Son, and Trump's America
Nov 20, 2025
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You Think Ya Betta Than Me?!
On Expertise, Resentment, and Who Gets to Be Right.
Aug 29, 2025
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The 5th Anniversary of January 6th
And the way lynch culture can be felt in this moment.
Jan 6
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America’s First RINO Hunt (Empire of Liberty #12)
The playbook hasn’t changed, only the hashtags have.
Sep 25, 2025
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From NATO to Nature (50 Facts #1)
Where America Truly Lost Its Grip
Sep 23, 2025
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The Empire of Debt and Liberty (Empire of Liberty #11)
From colonies to companies to states and still paying the bill.
Sep 9, 2025
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The Mouse Haunts (The Mouse That Roared #2)
But I still love it.
Jun 5, 2025
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