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Conversations: with Paul Rahe, Professor of History at Hillsdale College

John Anderson: Conversations

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Is There a Silly Season in America?

In Britain, there's a phrase that gets used for certain periods of time between elections called the Silly Season. The United States is going through an elongated Silly Season in which one of our political parties thinks the real problem in American life is that biological males can't use women's bathrooms. And all of the sort of people in charge of the culture, Netflix, Amazon Prime, and so forth, they're trying to make propaganda films and TV series pushing this kind of thing. I don't quite know how it will end.

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