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You Ask, I Answer: We Have Never Been Woke FAQ
My responses to reader and audience questions about the book and its themes
Mar 2
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Censorship is Primarily a Problem of Institutional Selection
College plays a big role in shaping the culture of the symbolic professions... but not for the reasons most think.
Sep 8
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Book Announcement: Those People
My second book is now officially under contract with Princeton University Press
Jun 16
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The Cultural Contradictions of the Anti-Woke
Trumpworld could be hastening the next Great Awokening
Jun 4
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The Limitations of Partisan Politics
It'd be great if we could just vote our way out of social problems, but that's not the world we live in.
May 9
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Trump Changes Nothing
Some argue I should either self-censor more or grow nakedly political during the Trump II regime. I strenuously disagree.
Jan 7
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Smart People Are Especially Prone to Tribalism, Dogmatism and Virtue Signaling
The symbolic professions aggressively select for those who are highly educated and cognitively sophisticated. This is a key source of their dysfunction.
Dec 3, 2024
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A Graveyard of Bad Election Narratives
All the prominent but obviously false narratives about the 2024 election prepared for burial in one convenient post.
Nov 11, 2024
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Contextualizing the 2024 Election: It's the (Knowledge) Economy, Stupid
The urban v. rural divide, the gender divide and the diploma divide are all proxies for the most fundamental division in contemporary U.S. politics
Nov 6, 2024
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Book Review: The Road to Wigan Pier
George Orwell's 1937 study of the working class and the left remains as challenging and relevant today as it was at time of publication.
Nov 3, 2024
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