I’ll say it in a way that is as legally unobjectionable as I can manage: I do not endorse violence but I understand why it’s happening. I’m not even talking about the type of violence that harms people. When people feel politically powerless in America it’s
I wasn’t on Twitter during the Arab Spring. It sounds like it was a big deal. Millions of people across a continent throwing off the shackles of tyranny and demonstrating for the first time the power of online organizing. It’s widely regarded to be the least shitty thing
Hey, my beloved subscribers—and the rest of you, too, who I hope are about to click that big old subscribe button. Got a little something different for you this week. I’ve decided to write a book. More accurately, I’ve decided to finish a book. My oldest subscribers
I’ll say it in a way that is as legally unobjectionable as I can manage: I do not endorse violence but I understand why it’s happening. I’m not even talking about the type of violence that harms people. When people feel politically powerless in America it’s
There’s a longstanding myth that, I think, emerges from the near-religious dedication people express toward capitalism that anything can and should be run like a company. Run a classroom like a company! Run a household like a company! Run a government like a company! Surely the businessmen are the
Hey, my beloved subscribers—and the rest of you, too, who I hope are about to click that big old subscribe button. Got a little something different for you this week. I’ve decided to write a book. More accurately, I’ve decided to finish a book. My oldest subscribers
For all the theatrical vandalism that Elon Musk and his groyper cohorts are wreaking throughout the US government it’s worth mentioning one of the less bombastic clowns in this carnival. Every few months the mainstream media goes into a raptured feeding frenzy over some alleged hive of far left
There’s a longstanding myth that, I think, emerges from the near-religious dedication people express toward capitalism that anything can and should be run like a company. Run a classroom like a company! Run a household like a company! Run a government like a company! Surely the businessmen are the
I’m fairly neutral, but leaning toward disapproval, of Luigi Mangione and I hope you’ll let me make my case before I lose too many of you. I totally get why people approve. It’s the appeal of the vigilante superhero. Subtracting the part where he got caught, his
For all the theatrical vandalism that Elon Musk and his groyper cohorts are wreaking throughout the US government it’s worth mentioning one of the less bombastic clowns in this carnival. Every few months the mainstream media goes into a raptured feeding frenzy over some alleged hive of far left
When you step back and look at the situation in the United States right now as a millennial, it really feels like a comedy premise that some really cringe internet writer would have come up with in 2013 and tried to make into a low budget movie: An army of
I’m fairly neutral, but leaning toward disapproval, of Luigi Mangione and I hope you’ll let me make my case before I lose too many of you. I totally get why people approve. It’s the appeal of the vigilante superhero. Subtracting the part where he got caught, his