In this Substack Live session, I speak plainly—as in I swore a little too much—about the moment we’re living through—from Trump’s gilded desecration of American institutions to the rising oligarchic capture of the political economy. I break down the structural corruption behind the “Big Beautiful Bill,” the dangerous unseriousness of centrist triangulation, the myth of libertarian virtue, and the tech elite’s dream of digital feudalism. I talk about gerrymandering, the collapse of due process, crypto-fascism, corporate cowardice, and what the hell Ayn Rand has to do with any of it.
I also take questions from listeners: how we resist without giving in to despair, what action to take when the streets feel out of reach, and whether we can still count on the courts. Through it all, one theme: coherence is resistance. Stay human. It’s the task of our time.
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