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Agnostic Extremism: How Neutral Questions Become Political

🔒Nearing the End of the Whole Mess: A Trump Pre-Mortem

So this is a tricky one—Readers of this newsletter are split between paid and unpaid subscribers. If you pay, you get to read it just over a week earlier than everybody else. Usually that doesn’t matter much, but every once in a while some major world event lands

Why Doesn’t the Right Understand Public Executions are a Terrible Idea?

Just a quick note that I’ve just left for vacation so next week’s piece will be a rerun of an older piece. A downside to running this publishing schedule while I'm away is that I had to finish this piece early, which means it's

🔒Agnostic Extremism: How Neutral Questions Become Political

I'm currently on vacation. This is a slightly updated version of an article I wrote some years back. I hope new subscribers will enjoy it just like new. Brand new content resumes next week. The novelist, comedian, TikTok guy Jason Pargin has a bit that he’s been

Oops! The Internet is All Scams Now

Good morning, today I’m going to explain what these two people have in common: With the advent of any new technology comes the unified chorus of a hundred million souls yearning for the answer to the most important question: “How can I use this to make money such that

🔒 Why Doesn’t the Right Understand Public Executions are a Terrible Idea?

Just a quick note that I’ve just left for vacation so next week’s piece will probably be some kind of rerun instead of new material. A downside to running this publishing schedule while I'm away is that I had to finish this piece early, which means

I Sure Am Sick of All These Dudes' Opinions About the Cornell Jane Doe

(I've got some news about a book I'm writing! Click here to read about it!) I’ve been making a concerted effort to lower the temperature of this S Peter Davis Internet News Magazine for a while now because, since the reinstatement of the world’s

🔒 Oops! The Internet is All Scams Now

(I've got some news about a book I'm writing! Click here to read about it!) Good morning, today I’m going to explain what these two people have in common: With the advent of any new technology comes the unified chorus of a hundred million souls

What the Right Doesn't Understand About Islamophobia

(I've got some news about a book I'm writing! Click here to read about it!) For the longest time I thought that the Western right, generally speaking, was only pretending not to understand why the rest of us have such a problem with their constant Middle

🔒 I Sure Am Sick of All These Dudes' Opinions About the Cornell Jane Doe