1490 Jared Yates Sexton Stops by

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4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Jared Yates Sexton is the author of American Rule: How a Nation Conquered the World but Failed Its People, is the co-host of The Muckrake Political Podcast and subscribe to his substack Dispatches From A Collapsing State

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From writer and political analyst Jared Yates Sexton comes a

journey through the history of the United States, from the nation's founding to the twentyfirst century, which examines and debunks the American myths we've always told ourselves. In recent years, Americans have faced a deluge of horrifying developments in politics and culture: stolen elections, fascist rallies, families torn apart and locked away. A common refrain erupts at each new atrocity: This isn't who we are. In American Rule, Jared Yates Sexton upends those convenient fictions by laying bare the foundational myths at the heart of our collective American imagination. From the very origins of this nation, Americans in power have abused and subjugated others; enabling that corruption are the many myths of American exceptionalism and steadfast values, which are fed to the public and repeated across generations. Working through each era of American growth and change, Sexton weaves together the origins and perpetuation of these narratives still in the public memory, and the acts we have chosen to forget. Stirring, deeply researched, and disturbingly familiar, American Rule is a call to examine our own misconceptions of what it means, and has always meant, to be an American.

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0:00.0	Well, hello, hello, and welcome to the Black Friday show, the day after Thanksgiving show.
0:08.6	The whole trip to fan makes you tired things and myths, so don't start with me.
0:12.3	But I hope you had a good time yesterday.
0:14.6	I am recording this before, even then.
0:17.6	So in the past, as usual, but really in the past, because I sat down with Jared
0:23.2	Yates Sexton on Wednesday before Thanksgiving, and we had a great conversation, wide-ranging,
0:30.8	always great. I love Jared. You should get all of his books and subscribe to his
0:34.3	substack and listen to his podcast, the muckrake podcast, and all the
0:40.6	things, because Jared's a really interesting cat.
0:43.2	I always enjoy our conversations.
0:45.5	I always enjoy his perspective on things.
0:47.8	We don't always agree and everything, but I don't really know how to argue necessarily.
0:51.9	But I think we got to a bunch of different good points in this
0:56.5	discussion. Always great. Always love it. Follow him on all the things. Look at the show notes for more
1:03.4	connections to Jared and of course, support him, support me here on patreon.com slash Pete Domit. Let's do it right now.
1:12.3	Author, political commentator, former writing professor, and all-around good guy, my friend Jared
1:18.5	Yeats Sexton. Just before we hit record, Jared was talking about how much admiration he had for
1:23.6	Larry Summers. I was surprised. You know, stand-up guy, the work he's done in economics, a relationship guru, no problem
1:32.6	with that guy's ethics or morality.
1:34.9	There was a huge controversy because he said something like women, when he's Harvard
1:38.7	president, women aren't good at math or some shit.
1:41.4	Something like that.
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