A respectful PSA to any of you who may have mistakenly followed me thinking I would only interview people you adore.

I'm a journalist. I have interviewed AOC and Steve Bannon, radical Islamists and Greenpeace folks, centrists and revolutionaries, CEOs and workers. That's my job.

It is up to you and your god and your therapist whether you have the stomach to read things from people you don't agree with. I respect that.

But, speaking personally, I will always disappoint you if you want everyone I interview to have agreed with you on every major issue.

I'm not a Harper's Letter guy. I don't feel threatened by people who don't don't want to read things. That is within your right.

But as I start http://The.Ink , I want to level with you. I will not satisfy those of you who think that way. I won't be hurt if you quit me.

And within the interview format, there are a lot of different ways to elicit sentences that are useful to the world.

Sometimes you want to do the @mehdirhasan. Just give them hell.

Sometimes you want to let people talk themselves into revelation.

There is value in all of it.

My problem with the "cancel culture" worrywarts is they fetishize a relatively trivial problem: very well-employed people's employment security.

The real issue is that we are losing our ability to think together. Democracy demands a bit of stomach lining.

Problematic people say useful things.

People who shouldn't be amplified nonetheless need, for our collective understanding, to be heard.

People who were wrong see the light.

Arguments get sharper when they have to joust a bit.

Journalism is interrogation. Of everything.

In sum, reporting, like retweets, is not endorsement. If this is a dealbreaker for you, I say with love and respect and solidarity, let's hug it out and part here.