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Geoff Shullenberger
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A forgotten detail of the Justine Sacco cancellation: My sense is its sheer scale and unanimity would be hard to imagine, much less reproduce, now. It was enabled by the
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I haven’t read the Time article yet, but recall that the Obama campaign was praised as slick and tech-savvy for using Facebook as a voter persuasion tool by many of
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Marcuse’s “Repressive Tolerance” offers a more plausible rationale for recent pro-censorship arguments than Popper’s better known Paradox of Tolerance. Popper thinks the open society is an end in itself; Marcuse
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Veblen goods are objects of conspicuous consumption, which contrary to normal goods,appeal to buyers because of their expense and inconvenience. “Ideological Veblen goods,” I propose, are views similarly adopted because
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One of the themes of my recent writing has been the strange new center to left tech consensus, which holds simultaneously that big tech is too powerful, and that it
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I skimmed Breitbart’s memoir for the Frankfurt school stuff 5-6 years ago and it’s interesting to return to it now. It was inconceivable to him there would be a conservative
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One text I read while writing about Lasch was a reply to his critics he wrote for Tikkun in 1986 called "Why the Left Has No Future." It starts with
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Buried in the Atlantic's vague, catastrophizing "Facebook is a Doomsday Machine" article is a fair question: "How much real-world violence would never have happened if Facebook didn’t exist?" An article
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Liberal culture in the Trump era has been defined by a fusion of perpetual moral outrage with amnesia and political impotence. Every news cycle was the most important thing ever
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The irony of the Canon Wars is that those who dismantled the teaching of the old cultural canon in the name of anti-imperialism thereby aided the rise of a new
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It sometimes seems that partisans from both parties increasingly see elections as structurally unwinnable for their side—yet the turnout numbers this year suggest that far from despairing and giving up,
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All recent presidents were tarred with illegitimacy: Clinton never won a majority, only pluralities, and was impeached; Democrats viewed both Bush elections as stolen; birtherism was an attempt to delegitimate
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