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

Triple H is the perfect embodiment of MAGA fitness

02 Aug 2025

A Ghislaine Maxwell pardon would break MAGA

30 Jul 2025

The Nelk Boys are useful idiots

28 Jul 2025

Hulk Hogan symbolised America’s fractured politics

24 Jul 2025

Is Minneapolis embracing New York-style socialism?

20 Jul 2025

The Left is outshining Democrats on social media

15 Jul 2025

Did Epstein files turn Kash Patel into a ‘Deep State traitor’?

08 Jul 2025

Is Lara Trump the heir to the MAGA throne?

04 Jul 2025

Zohran Mamdani heralds a new era of Democratic politics

25 Jun 2025

Meta chatbot shows why AI privacy is a delusion

14 Jun 2025

Is Nucleus Genomic rigging the genetic lottery?

08 Jun 2025

Why can’t Jordan Peterson say if he’s Christian?

27 May 2025

The steroid Olympics are here to stay

22 May 2025

Was Biden’s cancer diagnosis covered up?

19 May 2025

Times Square statue is a relic of the BLM era

08 May 2025

What falling McDonald’s sales say about the US economy

02 May 2025

Hasan Piker will never be the Democrats’ Joe Rogan

28 Apr 2025

Jordan Peterson is wrong about internet anons

24 Apr 2025

Bill Maher shows liberals how to deal with Trump

13 Apr 2025

Studio Ghibli AI memes expose growing artistic crisis

27 Mar 2025

Don’t expect Trump to give Derek Chauvin a pardon

17 Mar 2025

Why is Joe Rogan interviewing conspiracists like Ian Carroll?

07 Mar 2025

Why are Democrats staying quiet on Trump-Zelensky clash?

03 Mar 2025

Is Lara Trump’s new Fox show a campaign in disguise?

23 Feb 2025

Trump’s move to shutter CFPB is anti-populist

12 Feb 2025

DOGE deserves credit for 40,000 federal worker departures

06 Feb 2025

New York magazine shows progressives are losing the culture war

28 Jan 2025

Can Vivek Ramaswamy win over Ohio’s MAGA base?

18 Jan 2025

Steve Bannon’s anti-tech crusade fuels MAGA division

13 Jan 2025

Are cancer warnings on alcohol politically motivated?

06 Jan 2025

What Jimmy Carter can teach Donald Trump

31 Dec 2024

Trump’s AI appointment exposes rift between tech Right and MAGA base

27 Dec 2024

Politically divided housing: more proof of American polarisation

18 Dec 2024

Daniel Penny acquittal confirms end of BLM era

09 Dec 2024

How Trump turned Fox News into the king of cable — again

02 Dec 2024

Bud Light’s Shane Gillis ad shows the progressive revolution is over

21 Nov 2024

Trump has turned MMA into MAGA’s national sport

18 Nov 2024

Infowars auction won’t be the end of Alex Jones

13 Nov 2024

Donald Trump has built a Republican youth movement

06 Nov 2024

Peanut the Squirrel was no match for the administrative state

03 Nov 2024

Steve Bannon is no longer MAGA’s mastermind

30 Oct 2024

Two years in, Elon Musk’s X is a fascinating failure

27 Oct 2024

In defence of Bryan Johnson’s search for eternal youth

18 Oct 2024

Will Donald Trump betray RFK Jr?

09 Oct 2024

Is Russell Brand’s Christian conversion real?

30 Sep 2024

Why Trump fell for the Haitian dog-eating meme

12 Sep 2024

Kamala Harris’s big interview was an exercise in evasion

30 Aug 2024

Will RFK Jr’s supporters flock to Trump?

24 Aug 2024

Joe Biden’s passing of the torch was far from dignified

20 Aug 2024

Online Right opens up rift with MAGA movement

12 Aug 2024

AIPAC’s Democratic purge continues as Cori Bush loses

07 Aug 2024

White dudes won’t win Kamala Harris the election

30 Jul 2024

RFK Jr seeks to fill America’s political vacuum

22 Jul 2024

Why men should embrace testosterone

22 Jul 2024

What impact will the Donald Trump shooting have on the election?

14 Jul 2024

Joe Biden doesn’t need to listen to George Clooney

11 Jul 2024

AIPAC is driving out the Democrats’ pro-Palestine Left

23 Jun 2024

Stop calling Jerry Seinfeld Right-wing

03 Jun 2024

Right-wing internet anons are better off in the open

15 May 2024

The Onion has lost its bite

08 May 2024

Clarence Thomas’s court of diversity

03 May 2024

The strange trajectory of Tucker Carlson’s first 100 shows

02 May 2024

O.J. Simpson’s strange internet afterlife

11 Apr 2024

The long uncancellation of Mike Tyson

09 Apr 2024

Aaron Rodgers would be an electoral asset for RFK Jr.

17 Mar 2024

The Rock is a harbinger of America’s decline

15 Mar 2024

State of the Union: Joe Biden gets ready to fight ugly

08 Mar 2024

Oprah’s weight loss hypocrisy is an insult to followers

29 Feb 2024

Trump’s Sneaker Con appearance is a challenge to Biden

19 Feb 2024

Jon Stewart’s Daily Show is a joke that got old

13 Feb 2024

US conservatives attack Netflix for gay Alexander the Great

07 Feb 2024

Peter Thiel’s steroid Olympics will hurt the poor

02 Feb 2024

How TED was captured

26 Jan 2024

What next for Vivek Ramaswamy?

16 Jan 2024

Nikki Haley’s chameleon complex

10 Jan 2024

The narcissism of the Never Trumpers

21 Dec 2023

Will science or sunlight save the miserable modern man?

02 Dec 2023

What football taught Henry Kissinger

30 Nov 2023

Donald Trump doesn’t need the evangelical vote

24 Nov 2023

Ben Shapiro and Candace Owens divide the Right on Israel

14 Nov 2023

Is the Marvel Universe about to implode?

13 Nov 2023

Will the Panama shooter become the next Kyle Rittenhouse?

10 Nov 2023

Pacified Bernie Sanders disappoints progressives on Israel

25 Oct 2023

The age of the comedy roast is over

18 Oct 2023

Project Veritas was never going to outlast James O’Keefe

22 Sep 2023

Bronze Age Pervert is on the verge of mainstream acceptance

19 Sep 2023

Tucker Carlson’s Obama interview is a conspiracy too far

06 Sep 2023

‘Strike Force Five’ deserves to be boycotted

31 Aug 2023

Vivek Ramaswamy is the Macbeth candidate

31 Aug 2023

Tucker asks Trump questions you won’t hear anywhere else

24 Aug 2023

The cult of CrossFit

23 Aug 2023

Sam Harris has dumped the Intellectual Dark Web

11 Aug 2023

Jennifer Aniston falls victim to ‘like’ vigilantes

08 Aug 2023

What we know about Donald Trump’s obscure legal charges

02 Aug 2023

Diet influencers are falling prey to their eating habits

01 Aug 2023

The arrogance of dismissing aliens

31 Jul 2023

Online Right and Ben Shapiro battle over the true meaning of Barbie

25 Jul 2023

Manchin’s No Labels party could backfire

24 Jul 2023

Veebs: now there’s an app for partisan shopping

19 Jul 2023

Could you beat Elon Musk in a fight?

18 Jul 2023