Nice article. I read Jacobs’ The Economy of Cities a few years back and was immediately struck by the same habits of mind you describe in this piece. Jacobs was very strong on the advantages of certain kinds of urban living, and she understood how cities are great producers & aggregators of ideas and wealth. But when…

Muzzling the speech of others is illiberal. You don’t get to expand the definition of hate speech to everything you disagree with and hide behind the drapes, either.

The reason liberals support organizations like the ACLU, who for decades have protected the free speech rights of Nazis, white supremacists of all…

There are 2 liberal values:

I remember reading about a study, I think the breakdown was on NPR, on European soccer teams. It basically said the more homogeneous the team the more cohesive its play was, but the more diverse the team, the more creative it was with its playing.

So, you’re saying work the shaft before the balls?

He’s already got the ending to the book written in his mind:

Yeah, I’m actually very confused by the asshole tone of this article.

All things considered this is actually pretty cool and good?

Interesting that this comes from the same website that once called Ross Barkley “cocaine in white boy form”

I think it’s probably Westbrook, but most of those in his camp are pretty myopic. He leads him Harden in points and rebounds by 2 each, he trails him in assists. You can make very legitimate arguments for either based on who meant more to their team and how it corresponded to that team’s success.

I feel like I am not doing a great job of capturing, in words, the dread that this produces in me. Across the room, one of my dogs is licking its asshole with intense fervor; it is making sounds like the stirring of a pot of macaroni and cheese. Also, large bees are thumping loudly off the glass of the window with…

If he believed he was healed, he needed to show it.

We need a separation between Church and Golden State

Rookie mistake. If you think Forced Sodomy Air is just about the sodomy, then you haven’t met the new Forced Sodomy Air.

“[A]n immature and stupid response that literally could not have ended any other way.” What an impressively succinct encapsulation of exactly the type of reflexive bootlickery Burneko denounced in his piece. And the nice thing is, you can make literally the same exact argument in favor of literally any act of defiance…

They’d offered everyone the option of $400, later increased to $800, a new ticket, and a hotel room for the night. That nobody thought this was enough should have been taken as a hint, rather than as some sort of act of war.

“Well, I don’t love the customer service of Forced Sodomy Air, but they are $13 cheaper than JetBlue, so I guess I’ll have to suck it up.”

This whole “OBEY ANY AND EVERY ORDER YOU ARE GIVEN OR YOUR HUMAN RIGHTS ARE FORFEIT” deal aboard airliners is getting really old.

“I beg to differ.”

Want to star this, but clearly can’t.