Oliver Bateman

Oliver Bateman is a historian and journalist based in Pittsburgh. He blogs, vlogs, and podcasts at his Substack, Oliver Bateman Does the Work

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Why Hogwarts Legacy will prevail The Harry Potter game has benefitted from a media storm

14 Feb 2023

Tim Pool: the latest gonzo journalist to be forced out After the James O'Keefe saga, independent media is running out of steam

13 Feb 2023

Will a Trumpian party destroy the GOP?

10 Feb 2023

Why Left and Right love to fight about the Grammys The music ceremony is a culture war favourite

08 Feb 2023

Steroids won’t cure toxic masculinity

03 Feb 2023

The writing is on the wall for George Santos The disgraced politician is alienating independents — and his own party

01 Feb 2023

Donald Trump kicks off campaign with realist line on Russia The ex-president’s dovish stance is a challenge to the bipartisan consensus

30 Jan 2023

Can Donald Trump regain his Twitter touch? The former president was once the undisputed master of the medium

24 Jan 2023

Why gamers can’t play politics

23 Jan 2023

Lynette ‘Diamond’ Hardaway represented the best and worst of Trump The entertainer was an influential part of the MAGA movement

12 Jan 2023

Why pick-up artists joined the Online Right

09 Jan 2023

Damar Hamlin’s cardiac arrest becomes vaccine talking point The NFL incident has been weaponised by both sides of the Covid divide

04 Jan 2023

Libs of TikTok enters the mainstream Chaya Raichik's Tucker Carlson slot may inspire other anons to go public

30 Dec 2022

Why Whoopi Goldberg won’t be cancelled This isn't the first time she has got away with anti-Semitic remarks

28 Dec 2022

Is Elon Musk just another Silicon Valley CEO? The Twitter boss perfectly embodies Ayn Rand's rational egoism

19 Dec 2022

The men who worship Yukio Mishima

16 Dec 2022

How to get ripped and alienate people

07 Dec 2022

It’s time to leave Kanye West alone The music artist needs help, not attention

02 Dec 2022

The secret to Liver King’s success? Steroids A leaked email reveals the dark side of the fitness industry

30 Nov 2022

Glenn Youngkin is the Republican future

28 Nov 2022

A distinctly American tragedy in Colorado Springs A host of unique pathologies culminated in another mass shooting

25 Nov 2022

How George ‘Tyrus’ Murdoch became a Fox News superstar The pro wrestler is now one of the most popular voices on the network

22 Nov 2022

Like her or not, Nancy Pelosi is a hard act to follow She held together the moderate and progressive wings of the party

18 Nov 2022

Blake Masters fails to conquer Arizona Peter Thiel’s protégé was the victim of a broader shift back to the centre

14 Nov 2022

Elon Musk needn’t worry about Twitter’s Left-wing rivals Mastodon and Tribel are poor imitations

08 Nov 2022

The evangelist who united America

08 Nov 2022

Left and Right are wrong about Paul Pelosi attacks Neither side has a satisfactory explanation for David DePape's attack

31 Oct 2022

What will Kanye West do next? The alternative Right-wing economy isn't very lucrative

27 Oct 2022

Anime: the new conservative battleground Divisions in the American Right are widening

19 Oct 2022

From the alt-Right to Kanye West, Fox News plays a dangerous game Sanitising guests through selective editing will come back to bite the network

13 Oct 2022

Dear Elon Musk, can you buy Paypal too? The free speech absolutist can save this company as well

10 Oct 2022

Will Donald Trump rescue Herschel Walker? The scandal-ridden candidate is in desperate need of a presidential boost

05 Oct 2022

Peter Thiel’s dating app is already struggling The Right Stuff is not as unique as it's made out to be

03 Oct 2022

Donald Trump embraces QAnon The former President has been making explicit overtures to the conspiracy

20 Sep 2022

Can Mathias Döpfner make Politico great again? The Axel Springer CEO has made a big bet on non-partisan news

07 Sep 2022

The un-cancellation of Sam Hyde The Right-wing comic is rehabilitating his image through boxing

31 Aug 2022

How Greg Gutfeld conquered American late-night comedy Viewers are tired of Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Fallon's liberal clichés

19 Aug 2022

You can’t cancel Bill Maher The presenter has withstood many attempts over the years

09 Aug 2022

How dangerous are the MAGA mavericks?

25 Jul 2022

Meet Griffin Green, the cancelled ‘Bodega Bro’ The graduate lost his job shortly after moving to New York

04 Jul 2022

Russell Brand: the latest Leftist to endorse Fox News The comedian gave Tucker Carlson's show a thumbs up this week

22 Jun 2022

Vaccination is the new dividing line in Republican politics Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis are now on opposite ends of the fight

21 Jan 2022

It’s not the end of the world

29 Dec 2021

What has Bernie Sanders actually accomplished? The Senator turns 80 today — his most enduring legacy may be his failures

08 Sep 2021

What’s left at Current Affairs magazine? Nathan J. Robinson's hypocrisy sums up the emptiness of American Leftism

20 Aug 2021

The only way to survive the vaccine wars In times like these, the best course is to disengage and stay out of it

27 Jul 2021

What wrestling taught Donald Rumsfeld about power and pain The former defence secretary never forgot the principles of his college sport

01 Jul 2021

The radical Left is now extinct

27 Nov 2020

Yesterday’s men fighting yesterday’s battle Neither Trump nor Biden could present a bold vision for the next generation

30 Sep 2020