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Jul 2 • 12 tweets • 5 min read
I am begging the NY Times to stop being People magazine of campus speech issues nytimes.com/2022/07/01/sty…
This piece is about the wife of a tenured Princeton prof, who, depending on your point of view, was cancelled for speaking up against BLM, or for having an affair with an undergraduate student in the past (his wife is also a former student).
Look how amazing it all is!
While more polite, the piece notes that Ms. Gold is trying to break into the anti-woke grift industry, using her husband's firing as leverage. Already has a Bari Weiss essay.
And The NY Times said, sure, lets help her. Send out the photo crew.
WTF NY Times?
More hard-hitting Times coverage of campus conservatives:
“He’s young at heart, and I’m an old soul, and it works."
“She’s very feminine — I might describe her as ultrafeminine."
"She registered to vote Republican at age 18, mostly to be different on the liberal Upper West Side."
This is not journalism. It is the paper of record putting its resources into a puff piece designed to help the wife of a well-known academic jump on the Bari Weiss career path.
Why is the Times doing this?
The entire thing is so contrived: the celebrity couple and the Times reporter decide it would be a great idea to do a piece on their salon of intellectuals, so everyone dresses up for a staged dinner, plumping up their national profile for the price of a 1997 Meursault.
NY Times please come over and cover my dinner party: I think you will find the discourse intellectual and heterodox
There are so many gems in this piece:
The "compact, bearded, lover of Bach...pronounced himself a libertine."
Seems like the reporter might have noted that one of the dinner guests, in addition to being an amateur ballerina and opera buff, is also on the anti-woke grift, President of the campus Federalist Society and writer for the National Review.
Just realizing that this reporter’s last piece was about how sad a campus conservative was for not getting cancelled (+ longer 🧵thread on the failure of the Times on the campus speech beat)
Right on time!

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Jul 1
New, from me: What are the long term consequences of an extraordinary SCOTUS term?
Three things will go into decline:
*liberal democracy in America
*state capacity to solve fundamental problems
*the legitimacy of SCOTUS itself
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-courts-a…
It is impossible to fully process all that happened in SCOTUS this term. But one thing is clear. You can't ignore it. SCOTUS has become the policymaker-in-chief for America, and in doing so has rendered normal political institutions less relevant.
Big lesson 1: The courts are moving America further away from the principles of liberal democracy.
Liberal democracies offer relatively stable legal rights to their members. But such rights seem less and less stable under the new regime.
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Jun 30
New, from me: The Jan 6th hearings have rightly directed our attention to the risks that Trump poses to US democracy.

But a dispute over an obscure political appointment in Wisconsin tells us about broader GOP sponsored democratic backsliding. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-rot-runs…
Trump's democratic threats included The Big Lie and encouraging violence. But he also learned from establishment Republicans that the first strategy to succeed is through formal means: using courts and state legislatures.
So who is Frederick Prehn and why does he matter? He is a GOP political appointee whose term expired and is refusing to leave office. The WI Supreme Court says this is fine, even though it is happening because the GOP has blocked his successor's confirmation hearings.
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Jun 28
Remember "coup" discourse? About how it was not technically correct to call it a coup?
From Nov 7 2020 Image
There were two versions of this discourse: 1) specialists perturbed that the public would not adopt the correct terminology of "autogolphe" rather than the most accessible term that was broadly correct. Image
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Jun 22
Being coerced by your state employer to sign a pledge indicating that you refuse to boycott corporations or other states seems like a good way for the powerful to protect the powerful.
My column "Shunned by his Community, Captain Boycott was the First Victim of Cancel Culture" is ready to go for the first prestige national publication that DMs me
I am urging scientists to invent a time machine so this guy can pop up in the middle of the Boston Tea Party to explain to the rebels that that the East India boycott that presaged it was not expressive activity
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Jun 21
New, from me: how do we explain to future generations that the US blew the narrowing window to reduce the effects of climate change because conservatives decided that the administrative state needed to be taken down a peg?
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-deconstr…
The Republican SCOTUS supermajority is the most potent policy actor in modern America. It is set to decide that US state actors cannot use previously accepted powers to deal with the biggest challenge the world faces: climate.
Coral Davenport offered an exceptionally well-sketched big picture of the stakes of the conservative judicial attack on the administrative state, which are whether the US will actually be able to do much to limit climate change before it’s too late. nytimes.com/2022/06/19/cli…
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Jun 19
The conservative judicial attack on the administrative state is set to doom efforts to limit climate change. Nihilistic. nytimes.com/2022/06/19/cli…
The conservative networks that creates their SCOTUS supermajority are teeing up cases that would make it impossible to regulate the main sources of greenhouse gases in the US.
It’s sort of fucked up that broken American institutions are going to condemn the rest of the world to an environmental catastrophe.
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