Miniver Cheevy

I'm snipping out the meat of an article ostensibly about Donald Trump and John Bolton because it delivers a crisp telling of how Ame...

It's not just that they bought him, though they did. It looks like for the last two decades at least, Trump has been a bagman laun...

Last week I tweeted a link to an article in The New Yorker. The Government Has No Plan For Reuniting the Immigrant Families It is Te...

I have been meaning to compile a proper index of critiques of New York Times columnist David Brooks. This improper one will have to do. ...

A slightly refined version of a Twitter thread I ranted in March 2017. I should turn this into a proper article someday. Via @vgr...

This isn't a post, more like a goad to myself to make a post. A few times recently I have encountered people opposed to the curren...

Sartre I keep needing this observation from Anti-Semite and Jew . It describes not just antisemitism but the sensibilities of the far ...

This is a story about doing your best. So like a lot of people I have a certain ambivalence about Ms Amanda Palmer, but I love this th...

The Wild Hunt asked for a quote. I got carried away. My patron god is Hermes, god of communication, magic, and the agora, who sin...

Sam Theilman's essay You're Asking The Wrong Questions does some deep digging into the principle of free speech , looking at som...

I am fascinated with Thomas Jefferson. I love him. He is my favorite of the Founders. The first reason is the Declaration of Independe...

At the time, I tweeted a kind word about Meryl Streep's speech referencing the (then forthcoming) Trump administration, though I had...

So a while back I spat out this story on Facebook and now I'm posting it here. There's this skinny young guy I run into on an irr...

Because I am that kind of geek, I have constructed a sort of EDC solution for tabletop roleplaying games. For a long time, my only...

If you have the good fortune to not know who Milo Yiannopoulos is, you have my envy ... and my apologies for ending your innocence. He i...

Since so many people seem to be confused on this point: free speech is the right to express ideas without coercion We must p...

Since well before the current crisis I have been worried that too many people don’t know the difference between No Platform and Not My Me...