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This is worth listening to, but I'm frustrated at the constant invocation of "cancel culture" as a society-wide problem. There's no evidence that Americans are less nuanced or more punitive

So um this explains like 90% of what's going on in American politics right nowhttps://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12115-019-00437-7 Personally I think it has more to do with the political conditions we've grown up

These one-sentence summaries of "cancelations" never hold up to any scrutiny. (1/?)https://www.forbes.com/sites/evangerstmann/2020/09/13/cancel-culture-is-only-getting-worse/?sh=127e029663f4 First, this is not a case of a teacher

Sort of thinking out loud here, but one of the things that marks "cancel culture" as a moral panic for me is the term "culture." It implies that something has

This is an excellent overview/debunker of the claims being made in the trans debate right now. However! (1/?)https://seriouspod.com/sio284-debunking-the-end-of-gender-part-1/ One of my frustrations with the discourse around this issue is th

honestly kind of amazed it took Persuasion this long to publish transphobic talking pointshttps://twitter.com/HadleyFreeman/status/1379738608299556869 No one denies the existence of detransitioners. However, the "just asking questions&

It's not clear to me what "reach out" actually means in practice. Democrats already favor policies that benefit low-income, rural and working-class populations. The idea of anti-"real America" Dems is

Incredible. Greenwald self-published his hit piece on Hunter Biden and the central allegation is that he ... asked Joe Biden for favors and didn't get them. https://greenwald.substack.com/p/article-on-joe-and-hunter-biden-censored Just

I wrote about what Fox News and Facebook are doing to our parents.https://www.huffpost.com/entry/internet-baby-boomers-misinformation-social-media_n_5f998039c5b6a4a2dc813d3d Do I even need to spell out the problem? Losing older relatives to

Fascinating study. Researchers gave homeless people $7,500 each, no strings attached. They mostly spent it on essentials, cut back on cigarettes and alcohol and were more likely to be housed

In case you haven't already added "ballot harvesting" to the list of right-wing dog whistles, please do. It just means collecting people's absentee ballots! It's not a thing!https://twitter.com/TulsiGabbard/status/1307

I wrote about why U.S. Marshals rescuing 39 children from a sex trafficking ring in Georgia wasn't a bigger news story. (Spoiler: There was no sex ring.)https://www.huffpost.com/entry/government-did-not-break-up-child-sex-trafficking-ri