I'm a longtime reader and fan of @mtaibbi, with the bookshelf to prove it, so here's my public plea to him: please focus your talents on one of the dozen vastly bigger issues ongoing right now and get off the cancel culture hobbyhorse.

It's not even that I think it's a total non-issue; it's real, but the only innovation is that some comfortable elites are now experiencing it. Socialists, anti-war libertarians, Palestinian activists etc have been cancelled from polite elite society for decades, as you well know.

And of course every writer should be free to spend their time on whatever subject they wish. This is an ask, not some kind of boycott threat. But it's getting a bit ridiculous when there are so few voices unafraid to dig into the workings of..

finance, the military, and endemic political corruption on a systemic level, and you're here writing about the travails of Andrew "Race Realism" Sullivan at interminable length. I know it's personal for you because of that bullshit mob trying to take away your livelihood over..

a misfired go at satire decades ago. I can see why that would really make you zero in on a topic like this! But it really isn't one of the big stories of 2020 by a long shot, and not worth weeks or months of time, from you of all people. Why not refocus elsewhere?