Monticello, Hamilton, and Archie Bunker ... Matt questions how the Harper's open letter could make someone feel "unsafe" ... Bill: "I don't see what the letter actually accomplishes" ... When Bill was fired for his political views ... Should being a jerk in a viral video be a fireable offense? ... Did Tammy Duckworth torpedo her VP chances? ...

John: White Fragility is "one of the worst books ever written" ... Debating how we should remember Woodrow Wilson ... Glenn: Our story is about more than just domination and oppression ... On being a dissident black academic ... Why John resigned from the board of the National Books Critics Circle ... Should John and Glenn fear defenestration by the mob? ...

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Mickey to Trump: Drop out ... How can the number of cases be rising while deaths stay steady? ... How Biden can put his bumbling to his advantage ... Digging into the "Russian bounty on GIs in Afghanistan" story ... Ghislaine Maxwell and the many Epstein conspiracy theories ... Will we ever find out the names of the men Epstein procured girls for? ... Weighing the cancellations of Woodrow Wilson, John Wayne, and JFK ... Mickey sees a potential "Sister Stab-ya" moment ...

Conspiracy theories about fireworks ... John has flashbacks to the late 1960s ... Movements without leaders ... Nikita thinks about buying land in Russia and settling down ... Why some Russians think that Putin doesn't exist ... Is life a game you can win? ... The revived popularity of strongmen ...

The GOP's bad bargain on Trump and judicial appointments ... Why do social conservatives keep losing at the Supreme Court? ... A brief interlude on baseball and baseball movies ... A QAnon fan beats a five-term GOP incumbent ... Bill on Woodrow Wilson's complicated legacy ... Between lionizing and demonizing ...

Leigh's new satirical novel, Self Care ... Leigh's viral essay on the fall of the girlboss ... The life-changing magic of tidying up your whiteness ... Activism as self-improvement ... Are activists inadvertently promoting racial segregation? ... Why are women's spaces prone to unraveling? ...

How did evangelicals view Trump's infamous walk to the church? ... Sarah's new book, Unholy: Why White Evangelicals Worship at the Altar of Donald Trump ... The many commonalities between Trump and Cyrus the Great ... The Christian Right and alt-right, a "coalition of lost cultural dominance" ... The secret origin story of the Christian Right ... Sarah: Race is an animating force of the Christian Right ... Can anything lessen America's tribal grievances? ...

David's memoir, A Life in History ... David: Political history is being ignored in the academy ... Defending the Western model ... Did the Vietnam War spark a turn away from Enlightenment values? ... The 1619 Project and the ideals of the founding ... The lament of the white male ... Why is college so expensive? ... Did the founders actually believe in universal values? ...

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Theories about why infection numbers are going back up ... What they don't tell you about masks ... Is it too early to dance on Trump's grave? ... Mickey: The NYT has become a guilt-tripping barrage of wokedom ... Black activist Shaun King presents Biden with a Sister Souljah opportunity ... A new theory about the infamous WaPo Halloween party story ... Why has the right lost the culture war? ... What would a post-Trump GOP look like? ...

On New York's primary night, did the left strike back? ... Mail-in voting and fears of corruption ... Biden is up 14 in one poll, but Matt isn't ready to dance on Trump's grave ... How is it that Biden is doing better during a period of leftwing civil unrest? ... Why the odds of Warren as VP keep sinking ... Thought experiment: What if Trump goes silent? ...