#Essay

Simon DeDeo

SimonDeDeo

The 2010s was an intellectual era, but not an era of intellectuals: rationalists, SSC, LW, NRx, etc produced popular teaching, but no great, lasting texts. Lots of (Thomas) Huxleys, no

james crabtree

jamescrabtree

"While the world was distracted by the drama of the U.S. election, Xi quietly unveiled an economic strategy fit for a new Cold War." My first @NoemaMag essay on "dual

tamara k. nopper

tamaranopper

I created a lot this year, much of it dealing with issues of money, labor politics, racism, big data, criminalization, and abolition. Here's a recap. I co-organized, with @datasociety, and

Wokal Distance

wokal_distance

1/The Wokeness and postmodernism have come for ChristianityThe conservative Southern Baptist Convention passed a resolution allowing the use of Intersectionality and Critical Race Theory as tools for theology. So how

Joe Human

joe_human_

Tips on creating better content. ↓ Everyone these days is a content creator and there’s completely nothing wrong with that, we need as many creators as we can get but

Spotted Toad

toad_spotted

Most of the Bad Political Takes I see are generalizing from powerful prestige institutions becoming more ideologically uniform that the rest of the culture is, too. It's pretty coherent for

Cory Doctorow #BLM

doctorow

As the Qanon prophecies fail and the cult-members struggle to resolve their cognitive dissonance, it's a good time to revisit the history of paranoid, conspiratorial political movements in American history

Mx. Faylita Hicks

FaylitaHicks

The Hood Chick's Guide to Pitching: A Thread.For those without access to mentors, MFA programs, or community. So you wanna get paid to tell other people your opinions? Dope. You

Dave Nemetz

davenemetz

1/ Digital media companies can only win if they own the customer relationship and monetization on their own platform. They must be direct-to-consumer first companies.Here’s a thread on a key

Frankie Huang

ourobororoboruo

Since the start of George Floyd protests I've been thinking about what BLM means to me & trying to understand why many members of Han Chinese diaspora in the US

Joanna Chiu

joannachiu

Are you from an immigrant family, and have you grown up thinking that through hard work and sacrifice, anything could be overcome - including racism? Until recently, I didn't think

Melissa Febos

melissafebos

(thread) When I publish a book, I think of its yearly cohort as a kind of literary litter of pups—& there are SO many exciting books coming out alongside my

❝🎄⛓️💀❞ clarke

sapphomancer

mmm let's talk about looking at butches there is a perception that butchness is ubiquitous, or that there is much visual representation of butches in fictionthere is: not there just

kamala’s wrap.

itshannonnicole

Black Cinematographers I Want To Work With : A THREAD @sadendya LABAD ASS BLACK WOMAN. CEO: @redfutonstudio Commercials, Films, Music Videos YOU NAME IT SHE CAN LIGHT + SHOOT

Audrey Ludwig

AudreySuffolk

This is a thread by a law student re @jk_rowling and her essay. The student says that the latter is wrong about her concerns about separate and single sex facilities

Malcolm Clark

TwisterFilm

1./ Why is the Hate Crime Bill such a crucial test of the health of Scottish democracy? Last night a plethora of lavishly funded lobby groups spoke out. They were

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