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Is Trumpism a kind of fascism? Also: who cares? My meta-analysis (including, if you make it to the end, something actually resembling a conclusion) newyorker.com/books/under-re…

.Andrew Marantz reports from Michigan on the activists who urged Democrats to vote “uncommitted” in the primary to protest President Biden’s handling of the war in Gaza, and who have declined to endorse Kamala Harris in the general. nyer.cm/LNINQLe

I ran into one of the Buffalo Sabres in the elevator at the Prague hotel. They were in town to play the New Jersey Devils. He invited me to the game but I was performing that night.

For this week's NYT Magazine I profiled the historian Robert Paxton, who talked to me about the social roots of Trumpism, and why he changed his mind about the movement nytimes.com/2024/10/23/mag…

Andrew Marantz reports on Tucker Carlson, who just wants to live like it’s 1985. nyer.cm/hL48588

After the 2024 election, Democratic strategists argued that the Party needed to make inroads with young voters—especially young men. Andrew Marantz talks to Hasan Piker, a leftist Twitch streamer whose audience skews young, male, and disaffected. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/L7P6cV

Reupping this evergreen tweet, no rewording necessary. Will be on WNYC 🎙 with Brian Lehrer in a sec

Wonderful ⁦Andrew Marantz⁩ piece on the Hungarian playbook of our time. “All talk of playbooks aside, an autocratic breakthrough is not something that any leader can order up at will, by following the same ten easy steps.” newyorker.com/magazine/2025/…

Other countries have watched their democracies slip away quietly, without tanks in the streets. That may be where we’re headed—or where we already are. nyer.cm/b6ta6aI

Quoted in the Andrew Marantz piece today in the New Yorker on the parallels between Orbán's Hungary and Trump's America, especially re: clamping down on universities and media link in reply because musk

Terrific Andrew Marantz piece in latest New Yorker, carefully outlining the ways in which Hungary lost its democracy (for now), and how it does and does not resemble the U.S. newyorker.com/magazine/2025/…

Had a great time talking to the bros Andrew Marantz & Matthew Sitman about podcasts, bros, and bro podcasters on Know Your Enemy podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/did…

Today I am on the Ezra Klein show, making the case that Trump is losing his bid to topple American democracy nytimes.com/2025/05/16/opi…

“It’s never inevitable at the time” Writing Melting Point made me see the 20th century was always teetering on the edge. I’ve always obsessed over forks in the road, butterfly effects, what ifs, if onlys, some would say to an unhealthy degree! Here is my obsession in book form

For your weekend listening pleasure, let me recommend our latest Know Your Enemy episode with Andrew Marantz—it's about podcasts, bros, Trump's appeal to men, and what they all might have to do with each other. Rogan, Theo Von, Hasan, Chapo, etc are all in the mix. Link below:

What would need to happen for you to believe America is drifting into autocracy? Is it already happening? I'll be asking Andrew Marantz, the author of a blockbuster piece on the topic in The New Yorker, these questions on Thursday at noon. Sign up: open.substack.com/live-stream/29…