Love ‘em or hate ‘em, The Bulwark matters. We value and respect their prominent position in the pro-democracy movement. Yet despite their success, the Bulwark advises on politics from a point of view so ideologically blinkered that it puts the entire movement at risk.
In this week’s episode, we discussed:
A January 7 episode of Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang’s Las Culturistas podcast, in which listeners were advised not to donate to Jasmine Crockett’s Senate primary campaign because “she can’t win,” according to Rogers. “Anytime a politician is making it about themselves, I’m already done,” Rogers said. “Don’t waste your money sending to Jasmine Crockett. Do not do it.”
A January 13 episode of The Bulwark’s The Next Level Podcast – JD Vance Picked the Ugliest Fight on Purpose – in which Tim Miller led Jonathan V. Last and Sarah Longwell in an extreme critique of reactions to Rogers and Yang’s comments. Miller’s response to a cherry-picked (homophobic) response:
Antifascist historian John Ganz
Certain Thoughts roundtable post Jasmine Crockett: Everyone Weighs In
American Nuremberg
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REALITY CHECKING THE BULWARK - EPISODE 3
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Reality Checking The Bulwark
We’re institutionalists. We believe institutions matter – and when institutions fail, democracy falters.
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The West After the End of History
For three decades, the American-led order functioned under the assumption that the Cold War’s end signified the end of ideological competition. Liberal democracy would spread, markets would integrate everyone into good behavior, and wars would be quaint anachronisms like smoking in public places.
The Country That Wouldn’t Say the Word
As we’ve watched Minnesotans push back against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations, I’ve found myself turning to an older question like what happens when a region becomes a testing ground for the meaning of citizenship? The Midwest was one such laboratory after the Civil War, when Radical Republicans and their allies tried to convert wartime moral energy into Black male suffrage.
