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“‘The public…will not decide wrong, unless it decides too hastily’: Revisiting Thomas Paine’s…

[Note: This is the largely unrevised text of a talk I gave at this conference at Iona College in October 2018. The “PP” marks in the text…

Apr 3, 2021

“‘The public…will not decide wrong, unless it decides too hastily’: Revisiting Thomas Paine’s…

Apr 3, 2021

“In your guts, you know he’s nuts:” Right wing Extremism in the GOP, 1964 and today

As the 1964 Republican convention approached, many political observers warned that right-wing extremists were about to take over the Grand…

Feb 4, 2021

Feb 4, 2021

Hamberder lovers vs. “burg-tards:” An analogy for life in Donald Trump’s America

I’ve been trying to come up with an analogy that captures my experience of living through the Age of Trump, and I think I found a so-so…

Dec 14, 2020

Dec 14, 2020

Transcript of President Trump’s Good Friday Corona-Rally. April 10, 2020.

Jesus was a man who was treated very unfairly, very roughly, by pilots, by seizures, by everybody really. There was even an advisor named…

Apr 10, 2020

Transcript of President Trump’s Good Friday Corona-Rally. April 10, 2020.

Apr 10, 2020

Can Eric Trump Even Hear Himself Speak?

There’s a good chance that in 13 months, Eric will be the son of a former President who traded on his father’s name and position to make…

Oct 11, 2019

Can Eric Trump Even Hear Himself Speak?

Oct 11, 2019

That time I tried to engage with someone from The Federalist as if they gave a shit about anything…

Ok, this is going to be embarrassing for me, but here it goes anyway. Back in June of 2017 I, a stupid person, thought that, based on…

Apr 27, 2019

That time I tried to engage with someone from The Federalist as if they gave a shit about anything…

Apr 27, 2019

What I learned from my Twitter jail sentence

I spent the day today in Twitter jail. Punishments are supposed to teach people lessons, so here’s my effort to extract a lesson from the…

Mar 28, 2019

What I learned from my Twitter jail sentence

Mar 28, 2019

Yes, Americans did refer to the nation as a “democracy” and not just a republic in the founding…

Neither the word “democracy” nor any of its cognates appeared in Thomas Paine’s Common Sense (1776), one of the most radically populist…

Oct 6, 2018

Oct 6, 2018

Dateline: September 6, 2068. The Original Text of the Historic, Billings Address

The Perpetually Failing New York Times has acquired the original, handwritten notes for what has come to be known as President Trump’s…

Sep 7, 2018

Sep 7, 2018

What happens when that joker from Palookaville becomes President?

Anyone raised in a small town like I was probably recognizes who Trump is. He’s the ballsy guy who recognized in 2nd grade that the rules…

Aug 25, 2018

What happens when that joker from Palookaville becomes President?

Aug 25, 2018

Seth Cotlar

Seth Cotlar

Professor of History at Willamette University. Author of Tom Paine's America. Working on a book about the long history of illiberal conservatism in the US.

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