The interview with Putin was a window into the wretchedness of American culture and the absolute corruption of companies like Fox News, which elevated Carlson into a position of preeminence. Watching him shrink to absolute nothingness, and then float away as a fleck of lighter than air vapidity at the hands of the Russian dictator, shows how low America has fallen. How could a man like Tucker Carlson have been taken seriously in a dangerous world? The answer is because we live in an unserious time at the edge of the abyss in an unserious nation.