to boldly punch, where no man has punched before
I saw the new Star Trek movie. When I tell you that it’s all punching and shooting, I’m really not exaggerating. It’s all punching and shooting. And as far as punching and shooting summer action movies...
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god save me from the converted
You will have noticed the specter of the angry white male Hillary Clinton supporter. You could hardly miss him, if you’re on Facebook or Twitter. There are dozens of him, hundreds. He has labored to...
View Articlean atheist of a certain kind
The very first thing I wrote on the internet that ever got any kind of traffic – I remember being thrilled to see it hit 100 views and floored after it cleared 1000 – was a piece I wrote about being an...
View Articlecheck out this Harry Potter and the Cursed Child fan theory!!!
I’ve been up early this morning tending to Miles, who’s dealing with another infection. I’m listening to a Slate podcast, featuring ostensible adults, asking why the new Harry Potter book, a play...
View Articlethat’s some high bar you cleared there
Many people are blaming Trump’s victory on political correctness or identity politics. (Please note that I have said again and again that neither “identity politics” nor “political correctness” are...
View Articleno one has the slightest idea what is and isn’t cultural appropriation
The noble purpose of moral critiques is to try and inspire better behavior. The destructive purpose of moral critiques is to elevate the person making them in relation to those being critiqued – “you...
View Articlea norm of free expression, on campus or elsewhere, is good, that’s my thoughts
In recent years, one of the ways that lefties signal their adherence to shared social norms is through an eye-rolling dismissal of any concern about free speech whatsoever. This is accomplished by...
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my top 2016 moment: “What is Aleppo?”
I would like to nominate Gary Johnson’s infamous “What is Aleppo?” gaffe as the moment which, for me, most typifies 2016, at least as far as our intellectual culture goes. Predictably, and in a sense...
View ArticleI know my own group by defining who’s not in it
Scott Alexander wrote a piece in the middle of last year that I think is as essential as anything I’ve read in ages about how we argue now. His point is pretty simple: as political segregation...
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everybody got some
Has there been a political moment that generated more utility (as the smarties put it) than Richard Spencer getting punched, in our lifetimes? For conservatives, alt-right or regular edition, it...
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