Singal-Minded

Singal-Minded

There's An Actual Ideological And Epistemic Crackup Happening On The Left And It Can't Be Bad-Faithed Away

It's easier to caricature all this, but it won't get us anywhere

Jesse Singal
Jul 08, 2020
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P.C. Principal (with Kyle, foreground) in a scene from the episode “Sponsored Content” in the new season of “South Park.”

Yesterday Harper’s published a letter defending the values of free speech and open inquiry. I was very pleased to put my name on it, alongside those of some of my writer-friends like Katie Herzog (also a podcast-friend, of course), Kat Rosenfield, and Phoebe Maltz Bovy. Many of the names were far bigger than ours: We’re talking Noam Chomsky, Garry Kaspa…

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