The Lying Game
When a conservative commentator like Bret Stephens starts explaining how of “culture” dictates behavior, reach for your bullshit detector.
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Just Deserts
October 16, 2017
Some seventy-two years from the last American execution for desertion, the firing squad is a tough-guy pantomime for hacks and hams.
A Right to Police Accountability
Welcome to Interviews for Resistance. We’re now several months into the Trump administration, and activists have scored some important victories in those months. Yet there is always more to be done, and for many people, the question of where to focus and how to help remains. ...
Non-Compete Clause
Female competition is the sharp edge of internalized sexism and the death of solidarity---and it’s utterly, irredeemably neoliberal.
Trumpspeak
October 12, 2017
I trained a Markov chain to generate the following paragraphs of Trumpese.
Offense Lords
October 11, 2017
The clowns are not only fundamental to our social institutions; they're literally in charge of them.
Greek Tragedy
October 10, 2017
A masterful narrative of the Greek debt crisis, Varoufakis's Adults in the Room makes a case for the revival of a humane internationalism.
Weedshock
Have television shows and films about weed shed their political naivety?
The Moldbug Variations
October 09, 2017
Three years ago, Peter Thiel called me a conspiracy theorist . . .
Weekly Bafflements
October 06, 2017
Wow who besides literally everyone saw this coming.
After decades of gossip and backchannel talk, somebody finally reported out and published the story that Harvey Weinstein is an enormous fucking creep. He looks like overripe fruit, and makes young women watch him shower. Cool ...
They Want to Take the Guns, Don’t They?
Welcome to Interviews for Resistance. We’re now several months into the Trump administration, and activists have scored some important victories in those months. Yet there is always more to be done, and for many people, the question of where to focus and how to help remains. ...
Reinventing the Wheel
You could grow old waiting for an enlightened billionaire to appear.