Steward Beckham
@www.stewonthis.com
Son. Brother. Baltimorian. Marylander. American.
The revelations about the Epstein circle continue to be gross.
But will we see accountability?
Watch the full video at www.stewonthis.com/p/boat-strik...
But will we see accountability?
Watch the full video at www.stewonthis.com/p/boat-strik...
November 13, 2025 at 10:24 PM
The revelations about the Epstein circle continue to be gross.
But will we see accountability?
Watch the full video at www.stewonthis.com/p/boat-strik...
But will we see accountability?
Watch the full video at www.stewonthis.com/p/boat-strik...
While the pundits spent years debating whether Trumpism was “real conservatism,” the machinery of power kept humming.
I wrote about my own journey through that debate, what we missed, and how we got here.
www.stewonthis.com/p/debating-c...
I wrote about my own journey through that debate, what we missed, and how we got here.
www.stewonthis.com/p/debating-c...
November 12, 2025 at 2:45 PM
While the pundits spent years debating whether Trumpism was “real conservatism,” the machinery of power kept humming.
I wrote about my own journey through that debate, what we missed, and how we got here.
www.stewonthis.com/p/debating-c...
I wrote about my own journey through that debate, what we missed, and how we got here.
www.stewonthis.com/p/debating-c...
The party of the future can’t keep taking advice from ghosts of the past. My latest piece looks at how the alliance between neolibs and anti-Trump neocons might be holding Democrats back from real renewal.
More thoughts at: www.stewonthis.com/p/two-silences
More thoughts at: www.stewonthis.com/p/two-silences
November 11, 2025 at 10:08 PM
The party of the future can’t keep taking advice from ghosts of the past. My latest piece looks at how the alliance between neolibs and anti-Trump neocons might be holding Democrats back from real renewal.
More thoughts at: www.stewonthis.com/p/two-silences
More thoughts at: www.stewonthis.com/p/two-silences
November 11, 2025 at 9:35 PM
It's time for new voices in our national discourse that aren't emanating from the original anti-labor political consensus.
November 11, 2025 at 9:32 PM
It's time for new voices in our national discourse that aren't emanating from the original anti-labor political consensus.
It's time for new voices in our national discourse.
November 11, 2025 at 9:28 PM
It's time for new voices in our national discourse.
It's a new era, and it's time for new voices. I write about the Democrat alliance with Never Trump Republicans and how it may be holding us back rather than pushing us forward.
www.stewonthis.com/p/two-silences
www.stewonthis.com/p/two-silences
November 11, 2025 at 8:02 PM
It's a new era, and it's time for new voices. I write about the Democrat alliance with Never Trump Republicans and how it may be holding us back rather than pushing us forward.
www.stewonthis.com/p/two-silences
www.stewonthis.com/p/two-silences
Whether we like it or not, Trump has broken through the American zeitgeist in ways we are still reckoning with. His return is more about the way centrist tried to rebuild yesterday's political center rather than get in touch with today.
More thoughts: www.stewonthis.com/p/moderation...
More thoughts: www.stewonthis.com/p/moderation...
November 11, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Whether we like it or not, Trump has broken through the American zeitgeist in ways we are still reckoning with. His return is more about the way centrist tried to rebuild yesterday's political center rather than get in touch with today.
More thoughts: www.stewonthis.com/p/moderation...
More thoughts: www.stewonthis.com/p/moderation...
Yesterday's center and the centrist connected to it (and still have large platforms) are the reason Trump comes off as authentic to so many people. It's not about Trump. It's about the failure that preceded him.
More thoughts: www.stewonthis.com/p/moderation...
More thoughts: www.stewonthis.com/p/moderation...
November 11, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Yesterday's center and the centrist connected to it (and still have large platforms) are the reason Trump comes off as authentic to so many people. It's not about Trump. It's about the failure that preceded him.
More thoughts: www.stewonthis.com/p/moderation...
More thoughts: www.stewonthis.com/p/moderation...
This is why this particular president lives in America's post-policy imagination. It's a cable TV version of democratic drift, and that connects with people when you defund education in yesterday's centrism.
More thoughts: www.stewonthis.com/p/moderation...
More thoughts: www.stewonthis.com/p/moderation...
November 11, 2025 at 6:48 PM
This is why this particular president lives in America's post-policy imagination. It's a cable TV version of democratic drift, and that connects with people when you defund education in yesterday's centrism.
More thoughts: www.stewonthis.com/p/moderation...
More thoughts: www.stewonthis.com/p/moderation...
It's haunting how Trump is able to live in the American imagination for better and for worse.
More thoughts: www.stewonthis.com/p/moderation...
More thoughts: www.stewonthis.com/p/moderation...
November 11, 2025 at 6:46 PM
It's haunting how Trump is able to live in the American imagination for better and for worse.
More thoughts: www.stewonthis.com/p/moderation...
More thoughts: www.stewonthis.com/p/moderation...
Everyone’s dunking on the new White House ballroom, and yeah, there’s a lot of performative outrage. But… TR gutted the place in 1902. Maybe this says more about America’s story arc than we want to admit.
www.stewonthis.com/p/so-are-the...
www.stewonthis.com/p/so-are-the...
October 22, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Everyone’s dunking on the new White House ballroom, and yeah, there’s a lot of performative outrage. But… TR gutted the place in 1902. Maybe this says more about America’s story arc than we want to admit.
www.stewonthis.com/p/so-are-the...
www.stewonthis.com/p/so-are-the...
Baltimore Running #BaltimoreMarathon
October 18, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Baltimore Running #BaltimoreMarathon
I wrote about the need for clarity in an age when the benefactors of a dying consensus keep telling the story, but won’t name the rot, even when it’s right in front of them.
Especially when the lights go out and the group chats start talking.
www.stewonthis.com/p/morning-in...
Especially when the lights go out and the group chats start talking.
www.stewonthis.com/p/morning-in...
October 16, 2025 at 7:40 PM
I wrote about the need for clarity in an age when the benefactors of a dying consensus keep telling the story, but won’t name the rot, even when it’s right in front of them.
Especially when the lights go out and the group chats start talking.
www.stewonthis.com/p/morning-in...
Especially when the lights go out and the group chats start talking.
www.stewonthis.com/p/morning-in...
I wrote about the passage of time and leaked chats of futures leaders.
www.stewonthis.com/p/leaves-fal...
www.stewonthis.com/p/leaves-fal...
October 15, 2025 at 1:46 PM
I wrote about the passage of time and leaked chats of futures leaders.
www.stewonthis.com/p/leaves-fal...
www.stewonthis.com/p/leaves-fal...
I wrote two essays this week. One about how Never Trump has turned into a memory project and the other pondering @clarajeffery.bsky.social’s essay on “soft secession.”
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October 9, 2025 at 9:18 PM
I wrote two essays this week. One about how Never Trump has turned into a memory project and the other pondering @clarajeffery.bsky.social’s essay on “soft secession.”
Subscribe and follow if you like!
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Subscribe and follow if you like!
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@clarajeffery.bsky.social’s “soft secession” essay inspired this reflection on America’s internal empire, or the economic and moral architecture that still divides center from periphery.
Read my latest, Clara Jeffrey’s Hard Truth of the Union:
www.stewonthis.com/p/clara-jeff...
Read my latest, Clara Jeffrey’s Hard Truth of the Union:
www.stewonthis.com/p/clara-jeff...
October 8, 2025 at 4:03 PM
@clarajeffery.bsky.social’s “soft secession” essay inspired this reflection on America’s internal empire, or the economic and moral architecture that still divides center from periphery.
Read my latest, Clara Jeffrey’s Hard Truth of the Union:
www.stewonthis.com/p/clara-jeff...
Read my latest, Clara Jeffrey’s Hard Truth of the Union:
www.stewonthis.com/p/clara-jeff...
As communicators, writers, and citizens, our first duty is to be honest, even when it becomes uncomfortable. Read more in today’s post: substack.com/home/post/p-...
October 6, 2025 at 12:17 PM
As communicators, writers, and citizens, our first duty is to be honest, even when it becomes uncomfortable. Read more in today’s post: substack.com/home/post/p-...
America’s political center didn’t just “shift.” It decayed, sold itself off, and left us living in its mausoleum.
My latest essay: The Mausoleum of the Middle: The Three Acts of America’s Vanishing Center.
www.stewonthis.com/p/the-mausol...
My latest essay: The Mausoleum of the Middle: The Three Acts of America’s Vanishing Center.
www.stewonthis.com/p/the-mausol...
September 24, 2025 at 2:52 PM
America’s political center didn’t just “shift.” It decayed, sold itself off, and left us living in its mausoleum.
My latest essay: The Mausoleum of the Middle: The Three Acts of America’s Vanishing Center.
www.stewonthis.com/p/the-mausol...
My latest essay: The Mausoleum of the Middle: The Three Acts of America’s Vanishing Center.
www.stewonthis.com/p/the-mausol...
I wrote about Cleveland, Mississippi, where terror and joy share the same soil, and history refuses to stay buried.
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open.substack.com/pub/stewardb...
September 17, 2025 at 6:19 PM
I wrote about Cleveland, Mississippi, where terror and joy share the same soil, and history refuses to stay buried.
open.substack.com/pub/stewardb...
open.substack.com/pub/stewardb...
The Constitution is called a living document. But it hasn’t drawn a new breath since 1992. And the last thing we added was about congressional paychecks. Thirty-three years of silence. What that silence says about America is louder than words.
Read my latest: www.stewonthis.com/p/the-quiet-...
Read my latest: www.stewonthis.com/p/the-quiet-...
August 25, 2025 at 1:24 PM
The Constitution is called a living document. But it hasn’t drawn a new breath since 1992. And the last thing we added was about congressional paychecks. Thirty-three years of silence. What that silence says about America is louder than words.
Read my latest: www.stewonthis.com/p/the-quiet-...
Read my latest: www.stewonthis.com/p/the-quiet-...
When does an opinion stop just being an opinion? Have you ever found yourself excusing something as “politics” or “just their view,” only to realize later the cost was real? Curious where you all draw that line.
Read more here:
www.stewonthis.com/p/just-anoth...
Read more here:
www.stewonthis.com/p/just-anoth...
August 18, 2025 at 1:45 PM
When does an opinion stop just being an opinion? Have you ever found yourself excusing something as “politics” or “just their view,” only to realize later the cost was real? Curious where you all draw that line.
Read more here:
www.stewonthis.com/p/just-anoth...
Read more here:
www.stewonthis.com/p/just-anoth...
I wrote about Wag the Dog and the demolition of American social trust.
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www.stewonthis.com/p/wag-the-do...
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August 13, 2025 at 1:07 PM
I wrote about Wag the Dog and the demolition of American social trust.
Read more ⬇️
www.stewonthis.com/p/wag-the-do...
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www.stewonthis.com/p/wag-the-do...