In today’s context of Elon Musk condemning some millions of people to death in an effort to shock the liberal West out of its addiction to caring about strangers, we’re once again in a discourse, unfortunately, about whether empathy is bad. Unsurprisingly, the richest people in the world
It’s hard to deny that we’re in a state of rising tension in many nations across the West as right-wing populists try to imitate, for some reason, possibly the most unpopular US president in history. Nevertheless, worrying anti-migrant trends are rising as times get tough and
Hey there, Sorry folks, the version of this article I sent earlier was missing a chunk of text in the middle and I don't know how that happened. Please read the corrected version from after the picture of Russell Crowe around 2/3 down. -- In today’s context
As this is a politically opinionated column, I tend to get three different types of response: Lefties agreeing with me, lefties respectfully disagreeing with me, and occasionally, righties who, in every single case, very obviously did not read what they are responding to except maybe part of the headline. Something
I don't like talking about Substack much because a lot of my Ghost audience subscribes specifically to get away from Substack, and I hear you. But part of my beat is talking about online communities and, for this week's topic, Substack just happens to be my
As this is a politically opinionated column, I tend to get three different types of response: Lefties agreeing with me, lefties respectfully disagreeing with me, and occasionally, righties who, in every single case, very obviously did not read what they are responding to except maybe part of the headline. Something
By 2030, Elon Musk is projected to have killed about 14 million people, and I think that should be the primary thing that he is known for. I think this fact should be in the first paragraph of his Wikipedia entry and that it should come before mentions of him
I don't like talking about Substack much because a lot of my Ghost audience subscribes specifically to get away from Substack, and I hear you. But part of my beat is talking about online communities and, for this week's topic, Substack just happens to be my
Here’s the most fascinating thing I’ve read in a minute: Studies show that voting for Donald Trump makes men feel more masculine. To be clear, I don’t mean that Trump motivates men to be more masculine. That’s not the effect. He isn’t inspiring men to
By 2030, Elon Musk is projected to have killed about 14 million people, and I think that should be the primary thing that he is known for. I think this fact should be in the first paragraph of his Wikipedia entry and that it should come before mentions of him
Something has been bothering me for a little while now. It was exacerbated recently by a short essay by Dave Karpf about the fact that Bluesky isn’t taking off. Like, at all. And I know a lot of you are going to say “Well, of course it’s not
Here’s the most fascinating thing I’ve read in a minute: Studies show that voting for Donald Trump makes men feel more masculine. To be clear, I don’t mean that Trump motivates men to be more masculine. That’s not the effect. He isn’t inspiring men to