This cover story from New York magazine on campus activists working against sexual assault is deep and challenging, and you should read it in full. I want to talk a little bit about the burgeoning movement for explicit consent laws. These laws change the typical standard from “no means no” to “only yes means yes.” As the article […]

So I’ve been meaning to write something in response to conservative dweeb Kevin Williamson’s dweeby screed against Laverne Cox for dweeb magazine The National Review, but Jacob Bacharach pretty much beat me to it: the Internet bravely rushed in to declare that scientifically she is. “He doesn’t understand the complexity . . .” And we were […]

I would really like to let all this go, but I’ve been repeatedly challenged, so here goes. After this, no more of this stuff for awhile. I consider myself a socialist. In that, I mean that I don’t believe that our problems can be solved by more or better capitalism, but by systemic reform that […]

Online liberalism, as I’ve said many times, is not actually a series of political beliefs and alliances but instead a set of social cues that are adopted to demonstrate one’s class background– economic class, certainly, but more cultural class, the various linguistic and consumptive signals that assure those around you that you’re the right kind […]

Michelle Goldberg writes about the #CancelColbert fiasco and, naturally, uses it as an excuse to go after radicals, and does so, naturally, at The Nation, America’s preeminent source of bloodless, fretting progressivism. She blames the radical left for the rise of censoriousness and the focus on affective politics in the broadly defined left. It’s a classic liberal […]

So yesterday I went to my health clinic here at Purdue. I went to have a followup appointment and get a refill on a prescription I’ve had since last September of so. I went to the Purdue University Student Health (PUSH) center. It’s quite a comprehensive clinic; I’ve had everything up to and including minor […]