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21 November 2025

Clarifying common social justice praxis

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Social justice is not my primary political project, so I don’t want to claim profound expertise. But having rolled with people who are se...
20 November 2025

Toward a new ideology

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Timothy Burke offers a delicious provocation calling for a new ideology: Working On Our Ism We are against Trump and Farage and LePen...
10 November 2025

Wank

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Iris Meredeth offers “wank” as a useful term of art : Our society clearly has an issue with a whole family of bad-faith speech acts: o...
15 October 2025

The end of the Social Justice Détente

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After the wrenching fights over social justice from the ’60s through the early ’70s, American society made an implicit bargain I like to ...

Romney bitterness

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Over on Bluesky, a bunch of lefties piled on to a post expressing a common sentiment from the right. The media smeared Mitt Romney as ...

“Cancel culture” and criticism

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I keep bouncing off of my attempts to say something sophisticated about the challenges in constructively criticizing social justice advoc...
08 October 2025

The Ballads of Malcolm Reynolds

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Over on Bluesky, Sean Kelly says : Malcolm Reynolds starting off as an abusive prick who all the women love anyway because deep down...
24 September 2025

Luke Skywalker

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I don’t entirely love Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi — it works for me, though I recognize that it is messy — but I consider its ...

Redford headcanon

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I have a headcanon that Robert Redford’s characters from Three Days of the Condor , Captain America: The Winter Soldier , and Spy Game a...
11 September 2025

Charlie Kirk and Ezra Klein

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Ezra Klein’s New York Times editorial Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way is bad. The headline That headli...