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Incels, ideology, and violence

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One of the more disturbing ways the Internet radicalizes people is by getting sexually frustrated young men to transform their extremely common experience into the endlessly insidious consequence of a global conspiracy to victimize them: A self-described "incel" who is part of an online community of...
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The Muppets in the 21st Century

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This Joshua Rivera piece of criticism about the evolution of the Muppets is really quite good. Recent iterations of this (Jason Segel's excellent film excluded) have been a case study in how to turn a beloved piece of our cultural history into the cynical franchise-building exercises...
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Labor Law Reform

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I have an op-ed in today's New York Times (wow, anyone can get published in major newspapers these days!) about how one of the lessons of the Amazon defeat is the desperate need for labor law reform. That of course requires ending the filibuster and I'm...
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