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The freest of freebies would be for Biden or (better still!) Harris to denounce Robin DiAngelo. That would get media attention. nytimes.com/2020/09/12/us/… Image
I wrote about DiAngelo's theories this summer. They're really awful. nymag.com/intelligencer/…
Obviously few voters could identify DiAngelo. The point would be to drive coverage by the media.
The media's go-to reference here remains Sistah Souljah. But George W. Bush elliptically denounced Robert Bork and his book, Slouching Toward Gomorrah, in one speech, and that one aside had a huge impact on how the press covered Bush.

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“Hiding beneath the surface” is a construction writers like to use when they want to claim somebody is making an argument they are not in fact making. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
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This @qjurecic piece cites two articles, one of which is mine, against disqualifying Trump on 14th Amendment grounds. My argument is that the stakes (throwing a presidential nominee off the ballot late in the game) requires a no-doubt claim. nymag.com/intelligencer/…
@qjurecic It is clear J6 was an insurrection, and I *agree” Trump engaged in insurrection, but there is a wisp of doubt about the claim Trump personally engaged in insurrection: nymag.com/intelligencer/…
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Interviewing Trump has some news value, and I appreciate @kaitlancollins is trying hard to stop him from filibustering, but giving him a pro-Trump audience is a disaster and I don't understand the choice.
The whole effect of the crowd to cheer him and laugh at his jokes is to frame Trump as the tribune of the people.
Even in a world where @kaitlancollins was correcting every Trump lie as they spewed forth -- and we are pretty far from that world -- the braying crowd would make Trump look like the victor.
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My feature on the Republican campaign to gain ideological control of the schools has gotten some interesting and positive responses. Here's @rweingarten
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May 8, 2023
Why Republicans have become obsessed with schools as centers of political indoctrination nymag.com/intelligencer/…
My story covers a lot of ground, but I want to highlight a few points. First, the Republican belief that schools are inculcating progressivism is not entirely imaginary: ImageImage
The trouble is that first, Republicans have exaggerated the scope of the left-wing slant in schools: ImageImage
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Mar 2, 2023
I agree -- this should move your Bayesian priors, but I suspect there's also a lot more investigation coming, and the most sensible thing is to hold off conclusive judgment.
Worth noting that left-wing echo chamber Twitter has retroactively decided my column is mainly about the Reed affidavit, but it is in fact almost entirely about reporting in the New York Times. Just look at the headline, the photo, or 90% of the text! nymag.com/intelligencer/…
What is chef's kiss about this tweet is that both halves being compared -- my view of the Reed affidavit, and my view of youth transition research -- are completely made up
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Debut column by @DavidAFrench. His main point here is very important: people tend to assume mistakes by our side are atypical, while mistakes by the other side are characteristic nytimes.com/2023/02/05/opi…
French's column is about why people make genuine errors of perception. My newsletter addresses something different: when people know their side is wrong, but refuse to acknowledge it link.nymag.com/view/56eb230a1…
For instance, pro-vaccine conservatives first denied Ron DeSantis was encouraging vaccine skepticism, and when that denial became untenable, simply ignored the issue
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