Dave's place on the "dissident right" ... Aryeh denies being a leftist ... Explaining "NPC," the hot new political insult ... Jordan Peterson and social alienation ... Housing is expensive and consumer goods are cheap ... Why do conservatives dominate political YouTube? ... Going extreme on YouTube: bloodsports and superchat ... Are liberals hypocrites on climate change, college admissions, and privilege? ... The appeal of Tucker Carlson to the far right ...

What ever happened to Generation X? ... Cataloging what made Millennials the way they are ... The secret connection between Boomers and Millennials ... Dan explains why Gen X is more apolitical ... Bad Millennials vs. Good Millennials ... Assessing the state of Star Wars ... The surprising reason why Dan came to like The Last Jedi ... Aryeh argues in favor of the democratization of the Force ... The many sins of Solo ...

Jeet narrates the largely forgotten prehistory of Marvel Comics ... Does Stan Lee or Jack Kirby deserve more credit for creating the Marvel Universe? ... Lee's real skills: editing, branding, and marketing ... The link between Spider-Man and Ayn Rand ... Lee's foresight in working to make Marvel movies ... How Judaism influenced Lee and Kirby ... Is it crazy to rank Lee/Kirby alongside Shakespeare? ...

When did watching debate become a pastime? ... The blurring of news and entertainment ... Journalists who think they're comedians ... Joe Rogan, Contrapoints, and YouTuber politics ... Aryeh sees historical parallels in the Lincoln-Douglas debates and the Yellow Press ... Is Jordan Peterson an intellectual, an entertainer, or something else? ... Trump's merging of politics and entertainment ... BhTV's place in the debate-o-sphere ... David: Liberals need to have a positive moral idiom and vision ...

Should we believe Kavanaugh? Ford? Both? ... Kavanaugh the choir boy vs. Kavanaugh the party boy ... Aryeh recounts his brush with DKE, Kavanaugh's Yale frat ... Cathy is concerned about the plight of the wrongly accused ... Remembering the child abuse sex panic of the 1980s ... Jezebel reported that a journalist is a very bad boyfriend. Then he lost his job. ... Should the article have even been written? ...

Eve's essay on how the 1990s shaped #MeToo ... Fear and possibility in a '90s childhood ... The decade when testing took over ... What '90s kids did and didn't learn about sex ... Being a cool girl vs. being a good girl ... When Eve wanted to say no but felt she couldn't ... How #MeToo has recast women's understanding of old relationships ... Are men capable of being better? ...

James explains the Democratic Socialists of America ... What does DSA member Ocasio-Cortez’s win portend for the Democrats? ... Was it smart for DSA members to disrupt the Homeland Security Secretary's dinner? ... Why Medicare for All is the DSA’s flagship policy issue ... The effect of Twitter culture and Chapo Trap House on DSA ... James’s essay on DSA’s future electoral strategy ...

Stephen's new book, Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics ... The Henry VI trilogy: Making England Great Again ... Why Shakespeare understood demagogues so well ... Shakespeare's distrust of democracy and the mob ... How do you stop a tyrant? ... The mad kings in Lear and The Winter's Tale ... Richard III and Trump, fusing comedy and malice ...

Michael: The liberal narrative about Trump is contradictory ... Michael: Trump's worst acts were also done by past presidents ... Aryeh: Trump doesn't care about politics ... Do pundits accomplish anything by constantly psychoanalyzing Trump? ... Does Trump have a non-interventionist instinct? ... Why Michael doesn't buy the Russia narrative ... Aryeh: The hacked emails hurt Hillary, but not in the way you think ... Michael: Democrats should focus on Trump's corruption in office ... Why are so many leftists skeptics of Russiagate? ...

Will reports on the Roe v. Wade movie and becomes part of the story ... Down the rabbit hole of the QAnon conspiracy theory ... What draws people to conspiracy theories? ... Are the latest Mueller indictments the end of Seth Rich conspiracizing? ... Ben Garrison, the leading pro-Trump political cartoonist ... How does the alt-right view antifa? ... Meet Jacob Wohl, Trump's #1 Twitter fanboy ...