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Formative Years, Intellectual Betrayal, and Balancing The Bulwark’s Mission with Growth
Explore reflections on painful early career isolation and the surprising intellectual foundations that prepared leadership for today's fight, alongside the critical business dilemma of scaling a mission-driven outlet.
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- Leaders reveal that their most formative and intellectually challenging period involved deep personal loneliness rather than traditional career steps.
- They acknowledge the central paradox: the worse the political climate gets, the more necessary and successful The Bulwark becomes.
- The organization faces an immediate challenge: how to expand operational capacity without sacrificing the core intellectual mission that attracts its audience.
This unscripted conversation between JVL and Sarah Longwell steps away from daily news analysis to explore personal history and the future strategy of The Bulwark. Readers will gain perspective on the personal sacrifices made by the hosts and how those struggles directly inform their current commitment to diagnosing and combating threats to democracy.
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Top Comments (10)
we are fortunate to have The Bulwark. You are making an incalculable contribution. Thank you for persisting.
Having gone to law school living today makes me feel disillusioned because I devoted my life to the law and now the law doesn’t matter or it only applies to some
JVL…you do help sick people. When my hubs and I listen to you, we feel better. Keep it up friend✊🏻🇺🇸💙
This is such a thought provoking conversation. I so appreciate the work of The Bulwark and never miss a show. I think what you’re doing is meaningful. Makes me sad that JVL thinks he might have gone the wrong way. I think he’s where he needs to be. Hope I’m not being selfish.
We're all in this together!
JVL writing in present tense, is so incredibly brilliant, and to witness the worst of humanity, you bear witness to the future. And your work is bleak, but I appreciate it. I am a priest. I have seen the Christian faith transform from my ancestors leaving Virginia in 1838, and the Wesleyan faith over slavery, and Iowa was a Free State. I have gone through no women in the pulpits, to the Silent Majority, to W's Compassionate Conservative, to Christian Nationalists. Some days are harder than others, but I sit with trans kids, that have no legal Civil Rights in Iowa, and convince them they are worthy of love. You and Sarah are a blessing.
keep kicking the darkness until it bleeds sunlight
At the very end, JVL said "We're all in this together." I will take that literally and encourage The Bulwark, MeidasTouch, The Lincoln Project, The Warning, VoteVets, Glenn Kirschner, Secular Talk, et all to join forces to defeat the movement to end two and a half centuries of the greatest history of self-government the world has ever seen. You are all smart people who should be able to figure out how to work together without sacrificing your unique identities. There's too much at stake to do otherwise.
Watching from Australia. Thanks for your decency, honesty and intelligence.
Thank you JVL, Sarah, and Tim for all of your sacrifices. You are more help than you could possibly know.
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Top Comments (10)
we are fortunate to have The Bulwark. You are making an incalculable contribution. Thank you for persisting.
Having gone to law school living today makes me feel disillusioned because I devoted my life to the law and now the law doesn’t matter or it only applies to some
JVL…you do help sick people. When my hubs and I listen to you, we feel better. Keep it up friend✊🏻🇺🇸💙
This is such a thought provoking conversation. I so appreciate the work of The Bulwark and never miss a show. I think what you’re doing is meaningful. Makes me sad that JVL thinks he might have gone the wrong way. I think he’s where he needs to be. Hope I’m not being selfish.
We're all in this together!
JVL writing in present tense, is so incredibly brilliant, and to witness the worst of humanity, you bear witness to the future. And your work is bleak, but I appreciate it. I am a priest. I have seen the Christian faith transform from my ancestors leaving Virginia in 1838, and the Wesleyan faith over slavery, and Iowa was a Free State. I have gone through no women in the pulpits, to the Silent Majority, to W's Compassionate Conservative, to Christian Nationalists. Some days are harder than others, but I sit with trans kids, that have no legal Civil Rights in Iowa, and convince them they are worthy of love. You and Sarah are a blessing.
keep kicking the darkness until it bleeds sunlight
At the very end, JVL said "We're all in this together." I will take that literally and encourage The Bulwark, MeidasTouch, The Lincoln Project, The Warning, VoteVets, Glenn Kirschner, Secular Talk, et all to join forces to defeat the movement to end two and a half centuries of the greatest history of self-government the world has ever seen. You are all smart people who should be able to figure out how to work together without sacrificing your unique identities. There's too much at stake to do otherwise.
Watching from Australia. Thanks for your decency, honesty and intelligence.
Thank you JVL, Sarah, and Tim for all of your sacrifices. You are more help than you could possibly know.