We Could Do Worse Than Kash Patel Being a Drunken Buffoon If the FBI director’s alleged intoxication prevents him from carrying out Trump’s agenda, that might not be such a bad thing.

Is Kash Patel really, as reported by The Atlantic, a drunken buffoon? We better hope so. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

The Real Reason Trump Hates Pope Leo: He Wants to Take His Place Forget being a regular king. Trump is clearly expressing a not-so-secret desire to be a spiritual monarch.

Who will be the Trump's anti-Pope in the American Avignon Papacy? here's only one logical answer. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

How Iran Won the Meme Wars While Donald Trump panders to MAGA, Iranian satire is reaching a global audience.

Iran not only controls the Strait of Hormuz, it's also winning the meme wars: www.thenation.com/article/worl...

The Dubious Pleasures of Imperialism: H. Rider Haggard's King Solomon's Mines (1885) and She (1886) YouTube video by Cultural Logic

On H. Rider Haggard and long shadow of imperialist fiction: youtu.be/ZmNS6IrexaA

Rick Perlstein returning to blogging is good news.

Trump's Unholy Holy War: The logic behind "a whole civilization will die." YouTube video by Cultural Logic

On apocalyptic Christianity and the Holy War rhetoric of Trump's foreign policy. youtu.be/tsRwect7rIs

Well, everything dies, baby, that's a fact
But maybe everything that dies someday comes back

"It would be a great thing for the country if one would shoot the other and get hung for it." -- Thimble Theatre, June 26, 1927.

Pete Hegseth Is Scapegoating Career Soldiers for His Own Failures Trapped in a disastrous war, the defense secretary is intensifying a purge of the military.

Hegseth is trying to purge the generals before he himself is scapegoated for the failed war. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Trump’s Iran Speech Showed the Desperation of a Loser The president’s war is an ever-escalating disaster. He is increasingly reviled. And his speech won’t change either of those things.

Trump's much-touted speech was a mixture of self love and desparation www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Pete Hegseth’s Holy War Is an Unholy Nightmare The defense secretary is talking about Iran in bloodcurdling tones of religious extremism—and underscoring how much of a dangerous fanatic he is.

2. Hegseth is also a religious fanatic, a sexist, racist and homophobe who is trying to remake the military in the image of his MAGA bigotry. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

1. Is Hegseth a corrupt war profiteer? Sure looks like it, but that's hardly the only bad thing about him.
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Pete Hegseth’s Holy War Is an Unholy Nightmare The defense secretary is talking about Iran in bloodcurdling tones of religious extremism—and underscoring how much of a dangerous fanatic he is.

Pete Hegseth's Holy War is an affront to Christians and non-Christians alike. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

That's because you are a deeply dishonest apologist for a failed political faction, centrist Democrats.

The Politicians Won’t Stop This War. Only the People Can. The No Kings movement needs to become a mass anti-war movement.

Can No Kings turn into No War? www.thenation.com/article/poli...

The current pause is just to calm the market (and to make some money from insider trading) but if you look at what the military is doing, the push for a ground invasion continues.

The Real Robert Mueller story -- neither hero not villain but incompetent establishment figurehead. YouTube video by Cultural Logic

Thoughts on the legacy of Robert Mueller and the failure of elite opposition to Trumpism: youtu.be/AwWOku91doU

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Robert Mueller Never Should Have Been a Liberal Hero The cult of Mueller foolishly prioritized legal prosecution over political organizing.

Trump's vile comments on Robert Mueller should be condemned. But the liberal cult of Mueller hampered the only effect way to oppose MAGA authoritarianism: popular organzing. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Jeet Heer & Will Sommer Podcast Episode · Fast Politics with Molly Jong-Fast · March 21 · 46m

New episode with @jeetheer.bsky.social &&&& @willsommer.bsky.social

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Robert Mueller Never Should Have Been a Liberal Hero The cult of Mueller foolishly prioritized legal prosecution over political organizing.

Robert Mueller was neither the hero that Rachel Maddow imagined nor the villain that Trump rants about. But, writes @jeetheer.bsky.social, he was an exemplary figure of a pathetic elite. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

PM Carney_Oppostion to Iran War Involvement March 20, 2026 The Right Honourable Mark Carney, P.C., M.P. Prime Minister of Canada 80 Wellington Street Ottawa, ON K1A 0A2 RE: Opposition to Canadian Support for Military Action Against Iran and...

Hi Jeet, I enjoy and learn so much from you. I prepared a letter to send to Carney and was hoping you could perhaps sharing with your followers as well. Not sure it this will have any impact, but I want to try. I have no voice, but you do.
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Will the Iran War Destroy MAGA? Trump’s coalition is splintering over nationalism and Israel.

Polls showing strong MAGA support for the war miss the fact the war is already splintering a big chunk of Trump's coalition -- at least 1 in 4 of his 2024 voters are against. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Canada's Left Is In Crisis. Can Avi Lewis Revive It? As Mark Carney’s deceptive centrism pushes the country to the right, Lewis offers a compelling alternative.

Can Avi Lewis save the Canadian left? www.thenation.com/article/worl...

Instead of relying on out of context screenshots, I'd recommending reading what I actually wrote in 2016 (and subsequently) dnewrepublic.com/article/132170/donald-tr...

Pete Seeger – ‘Waist Deep in the Big Muddy’ (Live on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, 1968) YouTube video by Wil

"We're waste deep in the big muddy and the big fool said push on." www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxg5...

The Iran War Is Spurring Global Anger at America Trump's reckless and unnecessary conflict is hurting allies as well as foes.

After the Iran war, why would anyone other than Israel want to ally with the USA? www.thenation.com/article/worl...

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The Man Who Would Be The Face of the Anti-Trump West Mark Carney has put himself forward as one of the sharpest Western critics of Trump’s neo-imperial order. What’s less clear is what he’s offering in its stead.

Mark Carney's Davos speech did offer a credible alternative to Trumpism, but Carney himself isn't willing to follow the logic of his own arguments. www.thenation.com/article/worl...