This is my last month with the Diplomat; a few words later on what comes next. But for now, some ruminations on the future of the Chinese economy… When will China’s economy surpass that of the
Joe Manchin’s 2024 Senate campaign will generate so many hot takes that the internet will go supernova: Joe Manchin strongly signaled in 2018 that his brutal reelection campaign that year was hi
The good Robert Moses passed away after a living a heroic life: Bob Moses, a soft-spoken pioneer of the civil rights movement who faced relentless intimidation and brutal violence to register Black vo
There should be a snappy phrase for the tendency of all Anti-Anti-Trump Dark Web arguments about CENSORSHIP to devolve into claims that criticizing their stupid arguments is the worst form of censorsh
Here’s a really fascinating thread from sociologist Brooke Harrington on how to handle COVID and vaccine denial. Harrington’s basic point is an elaboration on the insights from Erving Goff
I know this will be of interest to some of my colleagues as well, but I love this post from Katie Baker: All of this is facilitated by Google Reader, a slim workhorse of a site launched in 2005 that u
The wonders of the internet, where a total crank can help lots of people die unnecessarily from a deadly virus despite the existence of a safe and effective vaccine before the truth can get its pants
Gentle readers, it is my painful duty to inform you that the unwashed masses who refuse to be suitably awestruck by the spectacle of obscenely rich dickheads getting themselves yeeted into space are m