Cotton Mather still rules 'American Political/Moral Life'?
Queer Atheist comments on The New York Times' Jeremy W. Peters & Company!
Editor: Reader note the framing of this New York Times essay by Jeremy W. Peters:
What I Cover
I write about debates over freedom of speech and expression as they impact our country’s most important institutions, with a particular focus on college campuses. If there is a simmering free-speech controversy at a university, local government or cultural institution, I want to be covering it. I’m interested in how institutions grapple with tensions over the most contentious issues of the day — politics, race, democracy, war — and whether they are making any progress toward resolving the extreme polarization in American society.
Editor: Self-congratulation rules this political moment, without a readable text to refer to as check against the self-serving?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/podcasts/the-daily/steve-bannon-interview-maga.html?action=click&module=audio-series-bar®ion=header&pgtype=Article
Editor: The Times offers this collection of political actors, thinkers, assistants in the production of propaganda!
Hosted by Michael Barbaro
Produced by Caitlin O’Keefe,Asthaa Chaturvedi and Stella Tan
Edited by Lisa Chow and Larissa Anderson
With Paige Cowett
Original music by Marion Lozano and Elisheba Ittoop
Engineered by Alyssa Moxley
Featuring Jeremy W. Peters
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Warning: This episode contains strong language.
From the outside, the political movement created by Donald J. Trump has never seemed more empowered or invulnerable.
But Steve Bannon, who was the first Trump administration’s chief strategist, sees threats and betrayals at almost every turn, whether it’s bombing Iran or allowing tech billionaires to advise the president.
Jeremy W. Peters, a national reporter at The Times, talks to Mr. Bannon about those threats and why, to him, the future of the MAGA movement depends on defeating them.
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Queer Atheist.
With this: ‘Warning: This episode contains strong language’ the reader might wonder, about the demographic that this New York Times political intervention is carefully aimed?