Or, I mean, what’s going on with how the chatterati are going to write about it. As I’ve said for a long time, a lot of progressive educated white types have essentially replaced having a politics with having certain cultural attachments and affectations. Really aggressively praising the Wire becomes a stand-in for “I am not racist.” Complaining […]
Continue reading →Chris Christie, the gift that just keeps on giving, says that parents should have choice when it comes to whether or not to having their children vaccinated. And, you know, in a certain sense he’s right. I think that nobody should be forced, by governmental power or corporate, to have their children injected with any […]
Continue reading →Here’s a really interesting conversation on the Remix with Dr. James Peterson with Dr. Adolph Reed, one of the most prescient, brilliant commentators on left-wing politics, race, and activism. I highly recommend you listen to it; it’s less than a half hour. I don’t agree with Dr. Reed on everything. In particular, I’m much less […]
Continue reading →This piece from New York magazine about a daughter-father sure is… something. As you might expect, it’s produced a feeling of visceral revulsion in me. I also think that since the uncoerced and informed consent of all parties is the only criterion for whether sexual conduct should be permissible, I think it should be legal. In […]
Continue reading →So my prediction is that both Selma and Boyhood will be nominated for Best Picture in the Oscars, they will be the two runaway favorites, and their status as such will prompt an endless, wearying, vituperative inter-liberal squabble that will bring out absolutely everything wrong with contemporary media progressivism. It’s going to suck so hard. We’re in for a […]
Continue reading →So here’s this Gawker piece about Fred Armisen that accuses him of being a bad boyfriend. (A point he readily concedes, as it happens.) I don’t want to get into some useless, wearying discussion of celebrity and privacy. I don’t get why this is news; of course Gawker has the right to run unsubstantiated rumors. […]
Continue reading →One of my basic beliefs about politics is that, over a long enough time frame, all political movements become indistinguishable from the parodies their opponents make of them. So in the world of conservatism, you see things like rolling coal, a kind of performative idiocy in which the other side’s exaggerated definition of what you […]
Continue reading →1. Studies say pirates pay for more content than people who don’t pirate. Those studies are old, small, and of dubious methodology, involving self-reported data. Of course, none of the people who constantly invokes them cares to look at them too closely. They are believed because they tell people what they want to hear. But even […]
Continue reading →I am 100% with Will Leitch when he says that the internet has made it easier to live in enclaves, and that this is a political and social problem with profound negative consequences. However. “this is now accepted public policy. You don’t have to find anyone to contradict you, if you don’t want to. This […]
Continue reading →So Michelle Dean has a typically sharp post on the accusation of “making it about gender.” She’s 100% right. The basic reality is that, if you find yourself asking why someone is making it about gender, it was already about gender. The fact that things are always about other things than gender too doesn’t change […]
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