The @nytimes.com spent weeks on that story because their leadership fundamentally agreed with Chris Rufo that it was insulting that a Black woman led Harvard. We're all supposed to pretend that's not obviously the case, but c'mon. Let's not be stupider than we have to be.

many such cases

The mainstream press viewpoint is that no one mainstream is racist, and therefore, as ideas approach the mainstream, they become less racist

I learned a few things from this piece by Zak Cheney-Rice about the way the American Nazis have been studying and promoting Bukele’s governance style nymag.com/intelligence...

These efforts were discussed endlessly in the nation's most prestigious publications. They were compared to McCarthyism, Stalinism, the Salem witch trials. College activists were framed as an existential threat against which the population required constant vigilance.

This racist conspiracy has been mainstream opinion within the U.S. Right since the early 21st century. It comes out of Islamophobic response to 9/11 and has been propagated by pseudo-intellectuals like Bruce Bawer and Christopher Caldwell, who are broadly embraced by centrist media and think tanks.

not by any stretch the first person to say this but: it is darkly funny how nakedly imperialist Trump turned out to be given the lengths to which some professional opinion havers went to take his "isolationism" intellectually seriously

Part of the problem with some of these "smart guys" (referring to folks like Thompson) is that they adopt erroneous right-wing talking points to critique right-wingers.

i think this is basically what has happened a big chunk of the american pundit class

🧵 I went to work in Congress with a Member who was raised in South Africa and part of the anti-apartheid movement. She taught me how to optimize the power of the opposition in the House. Like the trimtab on the rudder, members can steer the ship. Here are the six R's of minority power.

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In retrospect and unfortunately, the most accurate take I ever wrote. www.unpopularfront.news/p/the-emergi...

Cannot say enough about how good the Martian series of Revolutions is. The latest is propulsive, cinematic, staggering, and charged with possibility podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...

Spencer Ackerman's Reign of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump is a great book outlining the connections between the abject failure that was the War on Terror and the emergence of Trump

90% of "serious" American punditry is lying about what Democrats are saying, then telling them to do what they're already doing.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/10/o...

A reporter searches for answers about the former owners of his home in a new podcast from The Minnesota Star Tribune. What he learns reveals a history of Minneapolis he had never heard before.

There is a certain type of journalist — and there are many such cases at The New York Times — for whom it is actually gauche and embarrassing to treat news events and the people affected by them as if they're real.

I’ve always been fascinated by how conservatives turned to South Africa in the late 1960s and 1970s to project racist attitudes and fantasies that had become less welcome in polite white society.

A reminder that while campus tensions and fights over viewpoints may seem new, particularly to a college student, they are not.