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Whitewash
August 31, 2017
Like a recumbent sloth jolted into a panicked flight response, David Brooks has belatedly noticed the rancid politics of right-wing racial confrontation.

Control-Alt-Fail
August 16, 2017
“Both sides do it” is a species of magical thinking perpetrated by those with a deep institutional investment in upholding status-quo power relations.

Sail Trimmers
June 22, 2017
For the Atlantic, actual political agency, it seems, is a lesser virtue than the civic jolt proffered by a “mediating function.”

A Rich Fable
May 25, 2017
Sean Hannity doggedly waves the Fox News banner as the nation’s premium mass outlet for demented right-wing conspiracy.

No Left Turns
May 11, 2017
Our press is far less I.F. Stone than Derek Zoolander: It is congenitally incapable of making a left turn.

The Mismeasure of Media
April 27, 2017
Without the broader class background furnished by the righteous elite crusade against Sandersism, the miscalled general election comes off as freakish.

Salt Lake Snake Oil
March 30, 2017
Bloomberg View columnist Megan McArdle, though, is certain that she’s stalked the true home of American ingenuity, perseverance, and upward mobility in the present-day Mormon frontier. In a stem-winding, deeply impressionable survey of Salt Lake City’s church-administered ...

The PC Debate, Sullied
March 16, 2017
In times of perceived crisis, the American liberal mind instinctively reaches for reassurance in its great dream of impartial reason. The noble pursuit of above-the-fray truth is besieged on all fronts, the stout refrain usually goes, and the most urgent order of business, in ...