Revealed: Politico’s banned words
Inside one media company’s surrender to progressive pieties
Political correctness
Wednesday
The craziest campus news: universities are still good
For all the free speech fights, higher education continues to make people more trusting and civil
Saturday
When America makes Orwell look like an amateur
Why do half of us want a dystopian society, no strong-arm necessary?
Monday
A hazy afternoon with Bill Maher
‘The young people are the prudes and don’t find anything funny’
Shane Gillis is going places
He’s perhaps the greatest rising comedian, a beer drinker who understands Trump’s appeal
How Netflix saved comedy
It saturated the market with comics who are on opposite sides of the culture wars
Thursday
Who needs therapy?
Not everyone appreciates being told to look inward
Monday
I am woman. Watch me push
In an effort to make everything inclusive, we are erasing women
Ain’t that good news
Rather than preparing to live out the rest of this century in misery, I’m now giddily optimistic
Monday
Cancel culture gets its comeuppance
Not just politicians but artists are fighting back against its unreasonable demands
Thursday
The doctor is mad
The American Medical Association has just issued a health equity guide
Wokeness is the return of white supremacy
If white supremacists are racist because they put race at the center of all human interaction, what are the woke?
Friday
Racism has become a kind of theory of everything
Biden’s presidency has done nothing to abate racial paranoia. On the contrary, it’s getting more feverish
Monday
Why should The Strand survive?
It has become another improbable victim of the culture wars
Wednesday
How to write 2020’s Great American Novel
Or, the Manic Pixie Inclusive Totally Woke Dream Manuscript
Tuesday
Nobody is woke
At one level, wokeness exists only so that journalists like me and social media warriors on the center or right can fight it
Tuesday
The Middlebury mess
Students are open to challenging ideas. Their administrators are not
Tuesday
Pyle on: the warped logic of online cancel culture
Political positions are more nuanced than what can fit into a tweet
Monday
The miserable, squalid campaign to stifle Tucker Carlson
The Fox News host’s only real crime is daring to be provocative in a dull media world
Sunday
The digital age hasn’t made society more forgiving
Internet guilt is obscenely subjective
