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Jeet Heer

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Michael Ledeen Was the Forrest Gump of American Fascism

From Iran-contra to Iraq war WMD lies to Trumpism, this right-wing pundit kept subverting democracy.

by Jeet Heer via The Nation
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on May 30, 2025
Friends and Enemies

Marty Peretz and the travails of American liberalism.

by Jeet Heer via The Nation
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on May 14, 2024
Pat Robertson’s Genocidal God Has Called Him Home

The political preacher who made the religion look bad.

by Jeet Heer via The Nation
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on June 9, 2023
Jay Jackson’s Audacious Comics

Written during World War II, Bungleton Green and the Mystic Commandos imagined a future liberated from racism and inequality.

by Jeet Heer via The Nation
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on February 23, 2023
How Bob Dylan Wrote the Second Great American Songbook

The sale of the singer-songwriter’s catalogue is a reminder of his massive cultural legacy.

by Jeet Heer via The Nation
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on December 11, 2020
Richard Hofstadter’s Discontents

Why did the historian come to fear the very movements he once would have celebrated?

by Jeet Heer via The Nation
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on October 6, 2020
The Complex Origins of Little Orphan Annie

"No one story can completely explain Annie."

by Jeet Heer via Literary Hub on August 3, 2020
‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’ is a Science Fiction Film

Far from wallowing in nostalgia, Tarantino is using alternative history to critique conventional Hollywood endings.

by Jeet Heer via The Nation
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on August 23, 2019
The 100 Pages That Shaped Comics

From Mickey to Maus, tracing the evolution of the pictures, panels, and text that brought comic books to life.

by Jeet Heer, Abraham Josephine Riesman, Sarah Boxer, Heidi MacDonald, Fred Van Lente, Brian Cronin, Charles Hatfield, Christopher Spaide, Joshua Rivera, Klaus Janson, Mark Morales, Richard Starkings via Vulture
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on April 16, 2018
Let’s Relitigate the Civil War

There can be no "compromise" with the false view of America's past from Trumpists and pop historians alike.

by Jeet Heer via The New Republic
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on November 1, 2017
Art Laffer and the Intellectual Rot of the Republican Party

The godfather of supply-side economics is largely discredited by his peers, but revered by Trump and the GOP.

by Jeet Heer via The New Republic
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on October 18, 2017
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Jeet Heer

Bylines

Michael Ledeen Was the Forrest Gump of American Fascism

Friends and Enemies

Pat Robertson’s Genocidal God Has Called Him Home

Jay Jackson’s Audacious Comics

How Bob Dylan Wrote the Second Great American Songbook

Richard Hofstadter’s Discontents

The Complex Origins of Little Orphan Annie

‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’ is a Science Fiction Film

The 100 Pages That Shaped Comics

Let’s Relitigate the Civil War

Art Laffer and the Intellectual Rot of the Republican Party

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