The most unclear caption about an enormous catfish ever written.
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Oh, there’s also a picture of a really big catfish — which may or may not have spawned.
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The Truth about the Second Amendment
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. In 1791, the Founding Fathers placed into the U.S. Constitution a set of ten amendments that we refer to collectively as the “Bill of Rights.” Among them was an innocuous measure designed to protect state militias against federal overreach. Until the 1970s, nobody ...
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Sarah Jeong Is a Boring, Typical Product of the American Academy
The most significant feature of Sarah Jeong, the New York Times’ embattled new editorial board member, is not that she is a “racist,” as her critics put it. It is that she is an entirely typical product of the contemporary academy.
After the New York Times announced Jeong’s hire in early August, web ...
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Progressive Portland Has a Long History of Intolerance
“The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.” -- L.P. Hartley
They do things differently in Portland, but not because it is a foreign country, although many Americans might wish it were: At this moment, it is one national embarrassment too many. Rather, the tumults in Portland, which ...
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Academia Doesn’t Get to Define ‘Racism’ for the Rest of Us
A “descriptivist” is someone who studies how language is used. A “prescriptivist” is someone who tells other people how to use language correctly. And while these are often framed as opposing camps, they need not be: A thoughtful descriptivist realizes that strongly established usage patterns should ...
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The World as It Wasn’t
Five days before the 2016 election, after campaigning for Hillary Clinton in Florida, President Obama boarded Marine One. Aides flagged an email from the White House political director relaying the Clinton campaign’s final requests of the incumbent: Would he, the day before the election, stump in Pennsylvania ...
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The Great White Culture War
Yesterday I spent some time listening to a Vox podcast with Ezra Klein, Jane Coaston, and Dylan Matthews. The subject was the “Great Twitter Wars of 2018,” and I was particularly interested because they spent some time discussing a piece I wrote last week on Sarah Jeong’s anti-white tweets and the existence ...
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Are We to Blame for the Alex Jones Problem?
The behemoths of the Internet have shunned Alex Jones, the worm-tongued, often shirtless conspiracy theorist and paranoia monger who hosts a show called “Infowars.” The debate over this cartel-like decision is much larger than Jones now, and it’s taking place mostly on the right.
While I have no love for ...
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