American Dreaming
Jamie Paul, Alexander von Sternberg, Anwesh Satpathy, Jacob Bielecki, Ayman Eckford, John-Paul HydePolitics, culture, and commentary from an outside the box, philosophically liberal perspective.
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The Question No Interviewer Will Ask Ben Sasse
Senator Ben Sasse speaking at the 2015 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). Photo credit: Gage Skidmore
This post is by contributor Jacob Bielecki.
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In December 2025, Ben Sasse, former Republican Senator f...
Socialism Will Be the Death of the Democrats
This episode is an audio essay. The written version can be found here:
“Socialism Will Be the Death of the Democrats”
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Jamie Paul is a writer based in Greater Phil...
Socialism Will Be the Death of the Democrats
This essay also exists in audio form on the American Dreaming Podcast. Listen here.
Socialism is having a moment in America right now, and the Democrats seem to be here for it. Over the past year, socialists have enjoyed a wave of e...
If Gun Ownership Is a Right, Trans People Have It Too
This article is a guest post by Ayman Eckford.
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What does security mean when you are part of a group that is hated by the leader or ruling party of your country? It’s a question persecuted minorities have been asking t...
The Political Machine Never Dies
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After a harrowing and discriminatory ordeal at the hands of the Michigan State Police, Dakarai Larriett could have become deeply disenchanted. When troopers pulled him over, exhaustively searched his vehicle, subjected him to...
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The writers behind this newsletter.
Writer. Founding editor of American Dreaming. Contributing editor at Bi.org. Former managing editor of Queer Majority. Pasta enthusiast. https://americandreaming.substack.com/
One of the homes of the History Impossible podcast. Thoughts on history, politics, and culture can be found within.
Forever contrarian and temporally alienated. Struggling Freelancer. Historian-in-making. Editor-thelastdvd.com. Words-Quillette, The Wire, OrissaPost etc.
I'm a writer from Metro-Detroit, Michigan with a degree in Communications and History from Oakland University.
Ayman Eckford is a Ukrainian journalist, LGBT activist, and political analyst for the Solid Info think tank who covers civil rights, conspiracy theories, the history of ideas, American politics, and gender and LGBT issues, among other topics.
John-Paul Hyde is a writer living in Houston. He writes both fiction and non-fiction. He has two turtles, a dog, and an old cat with diabetes.
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