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The Philosophical And Moral Incoherence of “How Dare You Walk Out Of My Speech” by Ken White

“Cancel Culture” Has Victims, But You’re Probably Not One Of Them

Stop trying to shoehorn the Salman Rushdie assassination attempt into your weird "cancel culture" BS by Parker Molloy

No, someone trying to stab Rushdie is not in the same category as students protesting a campus event or whatever other non-story you're outraged about this week.

Some members of Gen. Michael Flynn’s family sued CNN for implying that they are QAnon followers. The case involves: a report aired by CNN on February 3, 2021, which was entitled “CNN Goes Inside a Gathering of QAnon Followers.” The...

For most of WordPress’ history, the platform accepted a single layout width, defined by the active theme’s global $content_width variable. Theme authors were required to handle the CSS for it and any other sizes they wanted on output. When WordPress 5.0 launched the block editor, it introduced t...

I first learned about Dr. Thomas Radecki in the mid-1980s, when my grandmother became concerned that my Dungeons and Dragons hobby was going to unmoor me from reality and send me spiraling into…

Yearning for a Banana Republic by Jonah Goldberg

Emboldened by fever dreams of persecution, Republicans want nothing more than to anoint a strong man to punish their enemies.

Leslie Lamport revolutionized how computers talk to each other. Now he’s working on how engineers talk to their machines.

Apply the Hillary Clinton Rule to Donald Trump by David French

There cannot be one legal standard for Republicans and another for Democrats.

What was in the boxes, and why does it matter?

The Arizona Senate candidate spoke with Andrew Torba about 'deplatforming' in a January 2022 Twitter Spaces conversation

Moral Panic Attack by Parker Molloy

"It's not what you say, it's what people hear."

When it’s good for Trump, and not before

Google’s plan would allow for candidates, political party committees, and leadership political action committees to apply for the program that would make their messages exempt from Gmail’s spam detection systems.

As I type this, I’m sitting in a (fairly uncomfortable) chair in the lobby of a Holiday Inn, having read through nearly 300 pages of legal filings of sniping between Elon Musk (165 pages) and…

I’m Sorry, But He’s Running by Tim Miller

Trump’s CPAC speech was his 2024 blueprint.

The Radical Scope of Tesla’s Data Horde by Mark Harris

In a series of articles, IEEE Spectrum is examining exactly what data Tesla vehicles collect, how the company uses them to develop its automated driving systems, and whether owners or the company are in the driver’s seat when it comes to accessing and exploiting that data.

"We need to take away children.”

The Good, Bad, and Very Ugly by Charlie Sykes

Breaking down last night's elections.