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Author: Freddie deBoer, Substack
SJW’s Can’t Declare Politics Off-Limits
Sam Adler-Bell published a critique of (let’s all groan inside, for different reasons) wokeness. I think it’s an interesting and at times trenchant critique. But because it’s about wokeness, there’s been another big controversy over the term woke and …
Just Keep It Off My Timeline!
Nowadays "left" opposition to free speech in principle is more or less explicit, though not coherent. As I’ve documented before, a core dynamic in left-of-center American politics is the transition from "lol that’s not happening" t…
We Are Experiencing Definitional Collapse
To return to a theme. For me, the moment that seemed to pierce reality, Don Delillo in real life, was when anarchists protested in favor of mask mandates. Children in black hoodies who wave the anarchist flag fight for the government and its right to …
Covid as Liberal 9/11
Gen X Was the Political Generation
every generation is, when they’re young, which means the youth still aren’t coming to save you
Princeton Make Its Application Process Even More Opaque
Forgive me for making the same basic point I made in somewhat more profane terms recently, but via a reader I learn that Princeton intends to make its application process even more opaque – and, of course, in the name of fairness and diversity, and ce…
Covid Panic Is a Site of Inter-Elite Competition
to be the most consumed with fear of Covid is just another PMC laurel
Where to Now, Chris Hayes? Where to Now?
pity the American liberal, so far from God, so close to Donald Trump
If You Condone Chaos, You Condone the Consequences
it’s our old friend, the inevitable consequences of our own beliefs