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The Intersection of Privilege and Cowardice

With so much to be angry about right now this might seem petty, but one of the things I’m angriest about might be Bill Maher.  I know, I know. Any energy spent thinking about Bill Maher, let alone being upset about him, is energy wasted. I’ve written about

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You Will Own Nothing, and You Will Be Miserable: Trump's Promise to America

Donald Trump did something frightening this month—stupid, absolutely, and breathtakingly irresponsible, but frightening. He gave a demonstration of the power that he unilaterally holds over the global economy. He doesn’t need weapons, just words. With an announcement on the White House lawn that he was applying absurdly high

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🔒 How Geeks Ate the World: Demons of Suspicion

Defining feminism and how its opponents began to organize around a counter-movement ostensibly dedicated to men's rights.

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Who is Running the United States?

On Wednesday, apparent president Trump did the most bizarre thing he’s done since the last bizarre thing he did and until the next even more bizarre thing which will probably happen before I publish this. He stood in the White House rose garden and gave a long, rambling, largely

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The Grift That's Smothering the Resistance

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

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Yes, Attacking Teslas is Self-Defense

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

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🔒 How Geeks Ate the World

Defining geeks, how their relationship with masculinity formed a culture, and their culture formed an ideology.

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No, You Can't Run a Government Like a Company

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

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We Need to Talk About Christopher Rufo

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

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Elon Musk is the Right's Luigi

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

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Understanding Fascism as Childish Tantrum

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

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Let's End the Self-Defeat of Platform Shaming

With all that’s been happening in the news lately—and that’s a lot—the last thing I have patience for is discussion about independent journalist Mehdi Hasan being a Nazi.  Hasan has copped this from every side of politics. You don’t get to be a left-wing British-Indian-American