From Occupy To AOC: The Rise Of The New Progressives, Part 2
In the years between Occupy Wall Street and Trump’s victory, the New Progressives made vast cultural gains and prepared to amass real power.
Atlantic Writer Tweets Trump Assassination Fantasy
Jemelle Hill’s tweet during the State of the Union implied that Rep. Ocasio-Cortez should participate in a conspiracy to assassinate President Trump.
This Year’s ‘Bachelorette’ Teaches A Needed Lesson About Love Across Political Lines
Becca and Garrett kept an open mind when building their relationship. In our hyper-politicized culture, more Americans need to do the same.
Cowed Business Insider Yanks Article Arguing Scarlett Johansson Can Portray A Trans Man
Business Insider is the latest publication to retract a story that offended transgender advocates. What are the new rules, and who is making them?
When The Going Gets Rough, ‘Ideas And Persuasion’ Are All We’ve Got To Take Down The Left
An internecine debate about conservative support for Trump raises important questions about the role of the pundit and the purpose of debating ideas.
Podcast: The State Of Free Speech, Culture Wars, And Tolerance Of Ideas
Are we creating ridiculous standards of speech and thought such as “you can never say anything that the Internet dislikes”?
How Is The Culture War Fought?
Jonah Goldberg’s response is more evidence of the reordering of the coalitional hierarchy of priorities within the American right.
Joy Reid Saga Proves The Left Only Cares About Homophobia To Bludgeon The Right
Many on the Left do not care much whether Reid is being honest about her blog postings or what her true thoughts on LGBTQ issues are – but they cannot admit it publicly.
The Problem With Social Media Isn’t The Media, It’s The Social
The Internet was supposed to supercharge the spread of information, but social media is actually crippling our ability to process new ideas.
Abortion Is Murder, But That Doesn’t Mean We Must Execute Women
The pro-life movement is a movement of forgiveness and redemption. The goal is to empower women and be welcoming to all, regardless of what they’ve done in the past.
Firing Kevin Williamson Is Just the Beginning
When contrarian voices are elevated to publications once viewed as places where contending ideas shared space, organized online backlash is now inevitable.
The Seven Dumbest Defenses Of The Atlantic’s Decision To Fire Kevin Williamson
Despite having achieved their goal, progressives felt it necessary with a torrent of widely-varying but equally flimsy rationales in support of the firing.
Morrissey’s Defense Of Free Speech Underlines What Both Right And Left Get Wrong
Morrissey has penned an eloquent attack on those who oppose free speech, but it has lessons for the defenders, too.
Kevin Williamson Firing Tightens Social Media Mobs’ Hold On Civil Discourse
Demonizing millions of good people, like Kevin Williamson, for believing what they believe or voting who they voted for is poisonous to our country.
Ta-Nehisi Coates And Jessica Valenti Prove The Atlantic’s Hypocrisy On Kevin Williamson
The Left’s terrible fury over Kevin Williamson’s hiring was due to his focus on abortion as the mass taking of human lives and an unwillingness to deny women their share of agency in this morally fraught act.
Kevin Williamson Fired From The Atlantic For Opposing Abortion
Kevin Williamson, a longtime columnist for National Review, has been fired from his new gig at The Atlantic for his opinions on abortion.
We Have Noted Your Absence From The Effort To Get Kevin Williamson Fired
The Atlantic is taking heat from outside critics as well as from within their own newsroom for hiring National Review’s Kevin Williamson.
Workers Of The World: Ignore Michael Dougherty’s Defense Of Donald Trump
It is because I am a son of the working class, and because I am from Chicopee, that I am so hard on the working-class men who support Donald Trump.
Check Your Sexual Privilege, Lena Dunham
It’s probably never occurred to Lena Dunham or the rest of the wealthy creative class that they may not have a healthy perspective on sexual behavior.
When Political Correctness Endangers Women
Dear Gothamist: It may be politically correct to omit descriptions of race from crime reports, but it’s also dangerous.
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