Kind: Reads

A single paper on the notion that gender dysphoria can spread among young people helped galvanize an anti-trans movement.

The new Anita Bryant, pt 1. by Parker Molloy

Or maybe not?

Earlier this year, we had a podcast with Jacob Mchangama about his excellent book, Free Speech: A History from Socrates to Social Media, and I pointed out one theme that is seen throughout the book…

The Paradox of Trump's Charisma by Jonah Goldberg

When he is at his most indefensible, that is precisely when the irrationality of his defenders becomes most intense.

The Anti-Anti-Trump Theory of Liz Cheney's Loss by Jonathan V. Last

Playing make-believe in order to avoid hard choices.

That’s a problem for Republicans.

Would the GOP Nominate an Indicted Trump? by Charlie Sykes

Of course they would.

The danger is not organized civil war but individual Americans with deep resentments and delusions.

Sorry Professor Dershowitz, but comparing Trump’s case to Hillary Clinton’s doesn’t make Trump look good. (You neither, for that matter.)

If he thinks that announcing a 2024 campaign will bring an end to his legal woes, he is mistaken.

A honey that gives you the spins -- so why aren't we stirring teaspoons of this potent gloop into our granola for a pleasant morning high?

Dave Chappelle, Shane Gillis, and other alleged victims would rather scold their critics than come up with fresh material.

All social relations create vulnerabilities and dependencies that are subject to abuse. This is a fundamental fact about the social nature of humanity, a baseline from which all specific arrangements need to be judged. Most of our public debates,however, take the posture of implying that the mere oc...

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…