Cotton Mather still rules ‘American Political/Moral Life’?

Queer Atheist comments on The New York Times’ Jeremy W. Peters & Company!

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Jul 01, 2025

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?

Editor: The Times offers this collection of political actors, thinkers, assistants in the production of propaganda!

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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

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.

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?

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About stephenkmacksd

Rootless cosmopolitan,down at heels intellectual;would be writer. 'Polemic is a discourse of conflict, whose effect depends on a delicate balance between the requirements of truth and the enticements of anger, the duty to argue and the zest to inflame. Its rhetoric allows, even enforces, a certain figurative licence. Like epitaphs in Johnson’s adage, it is not under oath.' https://www.lrb.co.uk/v15/n20/perry-anderson/diary
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