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It's Been A Bad Year For Trust In Expertise

Why I'm Keeping This Newsletter Separate From The Podcast I Co-Host

Let's Talk About Milton Friedman And Meritocracy

The Latest Food-Appropriation Controversy Is A Big Tasty Umami-Tinged Plate Of Nothing

Do You Care If I Make Some Old Posts Free For Everyone To Read?

A Response To Foreign Policy's Deeply Misleading Article, "A High Court Decision in Britain Puts Trans People Everywhere at Risk" (Updated)

How Young Reporters' Opposition To Free Speech Is Hindering Journalism

If Your Outlet Can’t Correctly Distinguish A Liberal Feminist From A White Nationalist, You Don’t Have Much Standing To Complain About “Fake News”

Many If Not Most Young Reporters Are Anti-Free-Speech. What Will This Mean For Journalism In The Long Run? (Updated)

My Book, The Quick Fix, Is Now Available For Preorder, And I Hope You'll Consider Buying It

Kyle Rittenhouse And The Problem Of Left-Wing Epistemic Closure

Progressive Feminist Orthodoxy On Sex And Gender Has Been Supplanted With Almost No Discussion Or Debate

This Thanksgiving Is A Reminder That Literally Anything Can Become Dangerously Politicized

Identitarianism Isn't Just Immoral -- It Also Stultifies Its Adherents

The Coddling of the American Dog

On Donald Trump, George W. Bush, And Moral Luck

Substack Exists To Make Money, Not To Save Journalism

Sympathy For The Forecaster, And For Other Complexity-Mongers

The Way America Learns About Presidential Election Results Is So Crazy And Broken

For The Good of Our Democracy, Please Don’t Spread Unverified Election Rumors

I Can't Stop Believing Election Stuff I Should Ignore

Is Trump Doomed By His Profound Inflexibility? (Updated)

Even If You Are, For Some Reason, A Liberal, Single-Issue Anti-Wokeness Voter, You Still Shouldn't Vote For Trump

We Can't Make Decisions About Language Based Solely On What The Worst And Most Ignorant People Might Do

The Police-Abolition Fad Won Progressives Nothing But Backlash And Misunderstanding

The Police-Abolition Fad Won Progressives Nothing But Backlash And Misunderstanding

Win A Copy Of A New Book About A Black Man Living In 'Trumpland'

Why Trump's Lived Experience As A Covid Victim Matters Less Than He Thinks

What Would You Do With $250 Million To Make The Country Better?

Internecine Progressive Conflict Over 'Platforming' Is So Silly And Self-Defeating

How Much Money Is Florida Going To Spend Trying To Prevent Its Own Citizens From Voting?

Social-Media Misinformation Is Going To Make Election Day So Terrifying

The Problem With Selective Empathy

The New York Times, Wildfires, And Rightside Norms

An Important Conversation About Diversity Trainings Is About To Be Derailed Completely

Lobbying For Millionaires, For Social Justice

Win A Copy Of A Book About Moral Grandstanding, Unless You're The Sort Of Evil Person Uninterested In This Vital Subject

On The Feeling Of All Hell Starting To Break Loose

What's Going On At The FDA Is Alarming As Hell

Is Decontextualized Media Coverage Of Donald Trump Helping To Spread The QAnon Conspiracy Theory?

We Need Strong Free-Speech Protections Because People Like Sean Roberts Exist

The Prospect Of Normalcy Is So Seductive Right Now

See You On Friday Or Saturday

On Seattle’s Disastrous Foray Into Policelessness And The Irreplaceable Importance Of Reporting

Win A Copy Of A Fascinating And Important Book About Education That Is Going To Annoy Many People

There Is No Such Thing As "White Culture"

I Think Twitter Could Be Causing And Seriously Exacerbating Mental-Health Problems

Win A Copy Of "Dare To Speak," On The Off Chance Free Speech Seems Like An Important Issue To You At The Moment

Publishers Weekly, Literary Twitter, And The Problem With Online Rampartism

Publishers Weekly, Literary Twitter, And The Problem With Online Rampartism (Unlocked)

Everyone Loses When Journalists Play Rhetorical Calvinball

“Don’t ask about this girl, if she even exists” (Unlocked)

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

On Bari Weiss And The Growing, Embarrassing Problem Of Epistemic Closure In Progressive Media

What Good-Faith Defense Of Free Speech In The Workplace Looks Like

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

“Don’t ask about this girl, if she even exists”

Win A Copy Of A Brilliant New Satire Of Woke Wellness Culture

It's Crazy That There Are People On The Left Resolidifying Whiteness

Vital Dividing Lines Based On Class And Education Are Being Erased From The Police-Reform Conversation

You Shouldn't Ruin Teenagers' Lives Over Racist Social-Media Posts

What Happens When Privileged People Dominate The Conversation

When Journalists Pretend To Explain

When Journalists Pretend To Explain

Win A Copy Of A Reality-Based Technothriller

Why Do We Share The Videos We Share?

What We're Worried About When We Worry About Christian Cooper

Let's Talk About That Central Park Video

Just Help Me Understand This About Trump And His Supporters

Conservatives Kinda Have A Point About (Some) Diversity Trainings

Feel-Bad Liberalism And Its Endless Race (Training) To Nowhere

What Should Twitter Do About People Like Candace Owens?

Why The Hard Age Caps On Youth Gender Transition Being Proposed By Conservatives Are A Very Bad Idea

Why I’ve Changed My Mind About The Importance Of Ideological Diversity In Academia

Some Of The Things I Miss

Win A Copy Of "This Is All I Got: A New Mother's Search For Home"

This Survey Item About Joe Biden And Black Voters Is Flawed, But Arguably Revealing

A Partial Louis C. Mia K.ulpa

Win A Copy Of A Book About One Of The Most Successful American Organizations Of The 2010s

It Was Self-Defeating For The Democratic Socialists Of America To Announce They Wouldn't Endorse Joe Biden

What Should We Do About The Fact That Louis C.K. Is Still Very Good At What He Does?

Coronavirus Open Thread

Win A Copy Of A New Book About Weird People

We Should Politicize The Coronavirus Crisis

Please Stop Blaming Deaths Of Despair On ‘Whiteness’

Introducing Blocked And Reported, A New Podcast About Internet Craziness

Win A Copy Of A Book About Storytelling At A Time When We Could All Use A Good Story

Singal-Minded Is Going On Spring Break

Is Elizabeth Warren Running The First “Intersectional Campaign”? Should We Care? Part 2

Is Elizabeth Warren Running The First “Intersectional Campaign”? Should We Care? Part 1

It's Not 'Bots' (Mostly) - It's Random Idiots

Win A Copy Of This Book About Friendship And Then Talk About It With Your Friend(s)

I'm Worried People Don't Hate Trump As Much As Democratic Consultants Think They Do

Here Are My Gripes With The Latest New York Times Column On Youth Gender Dysphoria

Deferential Posturing Is Pretty Pathetic To Watch

Navigating Online Controversy In An Age Of Unrelenting, Exhausting, Ubiquitous Bullshit: The American Dirt Story (So Many Exciting Updates!)

Come With Me To The Dark Miserable Catacombs Of The Kotaku Comments Section, Where A White Lady Awaits To Yell At Us

Why The Covington Story Still Grinds My Gears More Than A Year Later

Rep. Barbara Lee Is An American Hero

The Deeply Depressing Unpublishing Of "I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter" (Unlocked)

The Deeply Depressing Unpublishing Of I "Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter"

For The Love Of God Can We Please Stop Talking About "Bernie Bros"???

Win A Copy Of A Fascinating Book About Human Rationality, Artificial Intelligence, And A Lot Of Other Stuff

Two Terrible Campus-Related Anti-Free-Speech Stories

It's Important To Remember That They Will Never, Ever, Ever, Ever, Ever Stop Lying

A Reader Asked For My Help Escaping Toxic Wokeness And Finding Something More Meaningful

From Bowling Alone To Streaming Alone: A Semi-Informed, Arguably Coherent Theory Partially Explaining Why Cultural Criticism Is So Egregiously Bad At The Moment