Worth a listen
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On free speech, power and identity politics
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I find that listening to sane people speak sanity is bittersweet anymore. It's just so divergent from the ideas pop culture demands that we parrot, upon penalty of social and economic excommunication. It's a sad situation. It makes me feel feels. The True Believers really don't understand how good they have it, to be able to live in a culture they're sure is totally spot on in its ideals and messaging. That would be pretty neat, I think, to live like that. But then they have to have the pure hatred for Donald Trump and the right in their hearts, so maybe they are dying inside anyway just like the rest of us.
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Related: https://spectator.us/andrew-sullivan-new-york-column-riots/
What has happened to New York media? Just as the New York Times was experiencing its own Inner Mongolia Moment over the now notorious Sen. Tom Cotton ‘Send in the Troops’ op-ed, the Maoists at New York magazine were going after their best columnist, Andrew Sullivan.
Sullivan revealed on Twitter yesterday that his column wouldn’t be appearing. The reason? His editors are not allowing him to write about the riots.
Heads up: my column won't be appearing this week.
— Andrew Sullivan (@sullydish) June 4, 2020
Presumably Sullivan’s editors are frightened that he might make the radically bourgeois point that looting and violence are wrong.
Cockburn understands that Sullivan is not just forbidden from writing for the New York magazine about the riots; his contract means he cannot write on the topic for another publication. He is therefore legally unable to write anything about the protests without losing his job — at the magazine that, in 1970, published Radical Chic, Tom Wolfe’s brilliant and controversial excoriation of progressive piety. It’s the bonfire of the liberals!
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Did you see the sour puss on that chica to the right? Even in the beginning when they were joking about pollen she wouldn’t let the scowl drop.
21st century church lady.
