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July 16, 2026
“Get Lit" July 16, 2026: Dostoevsky's "Demons" Hits a Lunatic Crescendo
Brad and Matt go through "Ivan the Tsarevich," which lays out extremist revolutionary Pyotr Verkohvensky's batty grand plan for achieving equality through... obedience
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July 15, 2026
“Get Lit” with Matt Taibbi and Brad Pearce - Livestream, 4:30 ET
A recording from Monday's live video
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July 14, 2026
Humans, Unite: The Reign of "AIdeology" is Here
The AI content hurricane is making landfall.
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July 13, 2026
“Get Lit” Livestream, 4:30 pm ET: A Most Devastating Chapter of Dostoyevsky's "Demons"
Brad and Matt start with "Ivan the Tsarevich," a ferocious prescription for totalitarian politics
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July 13, 2026
Listen to This Article: Graham Platner and the Politics of Accusation
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July 11, 2026
Listen to This Article: "Supergirl": Portrait of a Modern Hero
Narrated Version | SJW chic meets the world's longest Mötley Crüe video in a mystifying summer blockbuster
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July 11, 2026
Recording: Inside the Twitter Files
A recording from Friday's live video
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July 10, 2026
Reminder: New Twitter Files Livestream Tonight at 5:00 PM ET
Dr. Matt Bivens and I dip a toe in the lake of unpublished Twitter Files, and release a number of things overlooked the first time
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July 9, 2026
Livestream, Friday, July 10, 5:00 PM ET: Inside the Twitter Files
Dr. Matt Bivens, who came to San Francisco to help go through the first batches of Twitter emails, joins me to talk through a few unpublished matters
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July 9, 2026
Graham Platner and the Politics of Accusation
A candidate in Maine drops out, and hypocrises abound.
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July 9, 2026
“Get Lit" July 9, 2026: Dostoevsky’s Demons, Continued
Episode four on the classic Russian novel
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July 8, 2026
"Supergirl": Portrait of a Modern Hero
SJW chic meets the world's longest Mötley Crüe video in a mystifying summer blockbuster
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July 8, 2026
Note On "America Turns 250"
A few liner notes to Ford Fischer/News2Share's mini-doc on a month of demonstrations
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July 7, 2026
“Get Lit”: How Dostoyevsky's "Demons" Described America's Descent to Madness
A recording from Monday's live video
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July 6, 2026
“Get Lit” Livestream, 4:30 ET: How Dostoyevsky's "Demons" Described America's Descent to Madness
After the Fourth of July Weekend, Brad and Matt reflect on the plot of "Demons," now gaining steam
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July 3, 2026
Listen to This Article: Controversially, the Supreme Court Rules for Common Sense
The high court allows states to ban an idea that almost no one supports, thanks to a historically incompetent policy campaign
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July 2, 2026
“Get Lit" July 2, 2026: Get Lit Continues Exploring Dostoyevsky’s Demons.
Brad and Matt unwrap the characters through the great Russian extremism epic
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July 1, 2026
Controversially, the Supreme Court Rules for Common Sense
The high court allows states to ban an idea that almost no one supports, thanks to a historically incompetent policy campaign
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June 30, 2026
"Get Lit" Monday 6/29/2026
A recording from Monday's live video
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June 29, 2026
"Get Lit" Livestream, 4:30 ET: On Dostoyevsky's "Demons," the Book that Predicted Wokism
Brad and Matt take on Dostoyevsky's masterpiece about fanaticism and murder in prerevolutionary Russia
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June 29, 2026
Listen to This Article: Zohran Mamdani and the Nitwit Revolution
Narrated Version | New York's Mayor proved he's a generational political talent this week, re-shaping the Democratic Party and setting America up for a referendum on its founding principles
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June 26, 2026
Listen to This Article: The New Radical Chic
Narrated Version | Ahead of America’s 250th, the beautiful people have brought anti-patriotism fully back into style
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June 25, 2026
Zohran Mamdani and the Nitwit Revolution
New York's Mayor proved he's a generational political talent this week, re-shaping the Democratic Party and setting America up for a referendum on its founding principles
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June 25, 2026
“Get Lit" June 25, 2026: Finishing Up Machiavelli's "Discourses on Livy," and Looking Ahead to "Demons."
Brad and Matt go over parallels between Rome and America, and look ahead to Fyodor Dostoyevsky's prophetic book, Demons."
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June 24, 2026
Machiavelli on Women, Virtue, and Fighting on "Get Lit"
A recording from Monday's live video
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June 23, 2026
The New Radical Chic
Ahead of America's 250th, the beautiful people have brought anti-patriotism fully back into style
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June 22, 2026
Livestream at 4:30 PM ET Today: Machiavelli on Women, Virtue, and Fighting on "Get Lit"
Brad and Matt's last livecast on "Discourses of Livy" has lessons for both Democrats and Republicans
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June 19, 2026
Listen to This Article: Post-Trump, Will Snobbism Still Work as an Electoral Strategy?
Narrated Version | The New York Times keeps setting new records for snootiness
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June 18, 2026
“Get Lit” Takes on Immigration, Foreign Wars, and other themes of “Discourses on Livy”
A recording from Monday's live video: Machiavelli had plenty of advice for current politicians on the subject of how, or whether, to maintain an empire.
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June 18, 2026
“Get Lit" June 18, 2026: Machiavelli's "Discourses on Livy," Book Two.
Watch now | Brad and Matt on how the Roman Empire was and was not like America.
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