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    Jul 2

    🚨Big News🚨 Alongside some of the world's most important writers and activists, I’m starting a new publication and community: Persuasion. The values of a free society are under threat. The time to defend them is now. Please join us.

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  2. 11 hours ago

    Apparently, WE ARE BACK.

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  3. 11 hours ago

    Hello? Will you let me tweet again, ?

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  4. Retweeted
    20 hours ago

    Gran reflexión en sobre las reglas de la discusión pública.

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  5. Retweeted
    17 hours ago

    The first few posts from have been really good. I'm happy to have joined.

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  6. 17 hours ago

    There are some good reasons for writing and signing open letters. But as enumerates here, there are also plenty of good reasons not to. I don't ultimately agree with the conclusion of this piece but, as usual with his writing, admire its elegance and idiosyncrasy.

    Never sign open letters: (my latest in )
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  7. 17 hours ago

    Obviously, the lockdown in America - as opposed to most parts of Europe and Asia - has also been badly wasted in another sense since our governments appears incapable of building an effective test-and-trace regime to stop the spread of the virus. But, even here, it saved lives

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  8. 17 hours ago

    The lockdown worked (to some extent). Even though we do not have any miracle drugs against COVID yet, doctors know the disease much better than they did, and can save a larger share of the seriously ill. That has, all along, been a big part of the point!

    Finally, some good news (tentatively): While deaths are rising fast in hotspot states, hospital mortality—calculated here as: daily deaths as a share of current hospitalizations—is down more than half since April.
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  9. 20 hours ago

    The most useful concept for understanding what's happening to public discourse: "In Rhetorical Calvinball, any maneuver is legitimate. You win not by running up points in accordance with an agreed set of rules but by making your opponent quit the game."

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  10. 21 hours ago

    Always read . White Fragility oozes with "an elaborate and pitilessly dehumanizing condescension toward Black people. The sad truth is that anyone falling under its sway ... has been taught how to be racist in a whole new way."

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  11. 23 hours ago

    Example: Trump did something bad. All of Twitter is shouting about it. Should you pitch the piece? Yes if you have a new angle, are personally affected, or think it actually isn't that bad. Otherwise, no. Because people like, say, Frum or Serwer are already writing the piece.

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  12. 23 hours ago

    A basic piece of advice I give to all aspiring writers is not to pitch publications on op-eds their established writers are likely already doing. If you think it's somehow bad for an editor to give you that advice, it says much more about you than about .

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  13. 23 hours ago

    I mean, the Bernie campaign used Shaun King as one of its main surrogates to win black votes! Shaun King! If this isn't mistaking Twitter for the real world - and paying a high electoral price for it when Biden sweeped South Carolina - I don't know what is.

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  14. 23 hours ago

    And by the way, I'm not primarily talking about the way Twitter overrepresented support for Bernie (though there was an element of that). Rather, I'm talking about how, to their detriment, Twitter shaped the language and policies of most primary candidates (including Bernie).

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  15. 24 hours ago

    Twitter attempted to take over the Democratic Party. It failed and Joe Biden is leading Donald Trump by a large margin. Now, Twitter is attempting to take over the established media. If it succeeds, we'll see in a few years what the impact on its influence and revenue will be.

    I think one obvious lesson of the Democratic primary was the extent that Twitter is not representative of the real Democratic electorate. I often find myself wondering whether this lesson extends beyond this website and the Democratic primary
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  16. 24 hours ago

    Same.

    Some told me Sunday that I was lying that an academic writes me almost daily fearing for their occupational safety. Hm. Got one Monday, woke up to one this morning, heard from a grad student yesterday. And we're only halfway thru the week!
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  17. Jul 14

    Terrible.

    Iran’s Judiciary Spokesperson confirmed today that the death sentence for three young protesters had been upheld by the Supreme Court
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  18. Jul 14

    This also helps to explain something that has long puzzled me: Defenders of "punity culture" love to point out that the right also engages in cancellations. And yet, they don't seem to grasp that this gives them a strategic as well as a normative reason to *defend* free speech.

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  19. Jul 14

    Many of those who are fine with social media deciding who should(n't) have a job seem to hold two contradictory beliefs at the same time: 1) America has made little progress and is still deeply marked by white supremacy. 2) The "right" people will always have the loudest voice.

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  20. Jul 14

    Dear Writers of "America," Stop already. We've had enough. No more plot twists. Leave us alone. Sincerely, Everyone

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  21. Jul 14

    What can I say. We have a good name. The best name. My uncle was a Professor at MIT, you know.

    "What are we going to call this new magazine?" "It should be something classy, suggestive of civility. Like a Jane Austen novel." "Persuasion!" "Yascha already used that." "Fuck it. Northanger Abbey it is then."
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