Why I (Usually) Hate Writing for the Media
Market incentives compel every editor to pretend to their authors, with a straight face, that anything but the dullest everyday English is unnecessarily “precious”, “snobbish”, etc.
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On the Imperative of Niceness, Part One
The imperative to be “nice” is, at bottom, an imperative to properly comport oneself to the demands of the market.
Naming the Appeal of Fantasy Worlds
One of the tasks of analytic social psychology.
On Banality Journalism; What is a Liberal? Part Two: The Moderate Liberal
The most boring people in the world are no longer entertained.
Masochistic Milkshake Martyrs
On the very stable BDSM relationship between the Proud Boys and antifa.
What is a Liberal? Part One
“There are human beings attached to those things!”
An immanent critique of left populism
An invitation to the Freudians’ Fall-Winter 2019 Analytic Social Psychology reading session.
