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Fifty Years Calling the Far Right “the Center’”
Reading Steven Lukes while America mistakes an engineered position for neutral ground.
Jul 22 • Deuce Davis
Reading Lukes in the Age of ICE
On power, and the dimensions of it we're built never to see.
Jul 15 • Deuce Davis
The Lindsey Graham Pile On is Wrong
Not because he deserves better. Because we do.
Jul 12 • Deuce Davis
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Bad Polls Don’t Mean a Redeemed Nation
Mar 28 • Deuce Davis
Reality Checking The Bulwark
Jan 31 • Deuce Davis and Evan Stern
Should Black Voters Renegotiate With Democrats?
Mar 4 • Deuce Davis
The Wrong Lesson from Budapest
Apr 13 • Deuce Davis
Does it feel like America hates its women?
Dec 4, 2025 • Deuce Davis
SNAP, Crackle, Gone
Oct 29, 2025 • Deuce Davis

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Sleepy Summer
World systems, power, and time.
Jul 10 • Deuce Davis
What I Do Love About America
On why loving something matters.
Jul 1 • Deuce Davis
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The Bulwark's Will Saletan, Race Scientist
When racism is a prerequisite, not a disqualification
Published on Certain Thoughts • Jun 29
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A summer note, an honest ask, and 40% off for life.
Jun 29 • Deuce Davis
The Myth of Certainty
Every generation thinks its world is permanent—until history proves otherwise.
Published on The Journeyman • Jun 28
The Supreme Court Once Again Endorses Trump’s Racism
The court took a look at Trump’s obviously bigoted handling of the Temporary Protected Status program and said, “Nothing to see here.”
Published on The Nation's Substack • Jun 27
The Center Was Always Going to Move
It just didn't ask permission.
Jun 24 • Deuce Davis
A Juneteenth Journey Through America’s Original Sin
What the Films Lie About.
Jun 19 • Deuce Davis

Videos

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Reality Checking the Bulwark: Tim Miller
Why He Did It: Tim Miller and the Road He Can't Quite Leave
Jun 2 • Deuce Davis and Evan Stern
Blue MAGA and the Myth of a Noble Conservatism
A conversation with Walter Rhein
Jun 1 • Deuce Davis and Walter Rhein
1:02:18
Reality Checking the Bulwark: Charlie Sykes
On the original host of The Bulwark Podcast.
May 22 • Deuce Davis and Evan Stern
1:11:46
Strange Fruit: Live with Anthony Milian
A recording from Steward Beckham's live video
May 15 • Deuce Davis and Anthony M, Public Historian
1:15:41
The Enshittified Bulwark
Watch now (79 mins) | “Late-stage capitalism” used to mean something.
May 7 • Deuce Davis and Evan Stern
1:19:22

Stew'd Over

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Who Gets to Be Taken Seriously?
What Ye and Sarah Longwell reveal about a political culture losing its footing.
Apr 6 • Deuce Davis
Frum, Miller, and the Question of Emphasis
In an age of corruption and asymmetry.
Feb 26 • Deuce Davis
Scoreboard Democracy, Part II
Anticipating myopic State of the Union coverage and punditry.
Feb 24 • Deuce Davis
American Inertia, Part II
When Identity Cohesion Outruns Policy Failure
Feb 23 • Deuce Davis
American Inertia
Why Structural Weakness, Not Activist Excess, Keeps Repeating the Crisis
Feb 19 • Deuce Davis

Stew'd On Screen

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A Juneteenth Journey Through America’s Original Sin
What the Films Lie About.
Jun 19 • Deuce Davis
Black America in a Jar
On scrutiny, silence-as-unity, and the politics of being watched.
Jan 16 • Deuce Davis
Does it feel like America hates its women?
BONUS: You should watch All Her Fault on Peacock.
Dec 4, 2025 • Deuce Davis
Quiet, Piggie...and Other Tales of Centrist Delusion
BONUS: A House of Dynamite movie reflections.
Nov 21, 2025 • Deuce Davis
Hopium, Myth, and the Monster We Know
Bonus: 30 for 30, American Son, and Trump's America
Nov 20, 2025 • Deuce Davis

Stew'd and Bookmark'd

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The 5th Anniversary of January 6th
And the way lynch culture can be felt in this moment.
Jan 6 • Deuce Davis
America’s First RINO Hunt (Empire of Liberty #12)
The playbook hasn’t changed, only the hashtags have.
Sep 25, 2025 • Deuce Davis
From NATO to Nature (50 Facts #1)
Where America Truly Lost Its Grip
Sep 23, 2025 • Deuce Davis
The Empire of Debt and Liberty (Empire of Liberty #11)
From colonies to companies to states and still paying the bill.
Sep 9, 2025 • Deuce Davis
The Mouse Haunts (The Mouse That Roared #2)
But I still love it.
Jun 5, 2025 • Deuce Davis
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