Sitemap - 2023 - Freddie deBoer
Retrospective 2023: To Sing as a Seagull Should
Every Annoying Letterboxd Behavior
Ants in the Server Racks: 21st-Century Anti-Tech Terrorism in Theory & Practice
December 2023 Programming Notes
Therapeutic Nationalism and Other Opportunistic Decouplings
There Are Many Shades of Regret
Why Does Taylor Swift Want More?
It's Still $5, Plus Final Book Review Contest Reminder
I Assure You, I Am Permitted to Oppose the Existence of Any and All Nation-States
An Ode to "I Hate Myself and I Want to Die"
To Everything There is a Season
Why Don't Self-Interested Arguments Against Helicopter Parenting Deter Parents?
The Effective Altruism Shell Game 2.0
What Purpose Do I Serve in Your Life?
Gratitude Feels Easy This Thanksgiving
Subscriber Writing, November 2023
Where Are the AI Skepticism Stories?
Ayaan Hirsi Ali Worships the God-Shaped Hole
The Curse as Nathan Fielder's Penance
Hillary Clinton Lost Because She's Deeply Unpopular
We're Still Stuck with "Strong Female Characters" Who Are Smug, Mean, & Reductive
Book Review Contest 2023 and Subscriber Writing for November
Abortion Rights Are a Revealed Preference
What's the Problem with Disability Studies and the "Disability Rights" Movement?
You Can't Just Say "Oh, That Doesn't Matter" About Every Single Political Question
Can the Liberal Democratic Project Incorporate Israel? Will It Survive If It Can't?
Here's a Little Rosetta Stone for the TikTok Era of Mental Health
Goliath, Who Aspires to be David
For Jessica Short, and For David Peterson Too
Why Has Social Justice Yelling Lost Steam?
Trauma is Indeed Like a Car Crash
I Don't See How "Player Empowerment" in the NBA is Sustainable
Subscriber Writing, September 2023
I'm Telling You, Save Yourself from the Irony Cult, Save Yourself
I'm Looking for More Ghostwriting Work
Review: Chasing the Intact Mind, by Amy Lutz
The Stations of the Meritocrat Cross
Aging White Men, Like Everyone, Are Aware of the Discursive Reality in Which They Live
Editors, I Love You, But Nobody is Pitching the Way That You Say They Should
"Was the Past Better Than Now?" is, Unsurprisingly, Not a Coherent Question
Call for Subscriber Writing, Plus the State of Things Here
The Washington Post's Review of My New Book Contains a Direct Factual Error
There Are No Vibe Shifts, Just Endless Change
Why Government Intervention in Healthcare is Necessary (and Inevitable)
Digest, 8/27/2023: And a Real Hero
Winner: The Derek Chauvin Defund Challenge
Can There Be a Theory of the Email Job?
Why Can't You and I Get Rich Quick?
Digest, 8/19/2023: An Eternal Flame
Excerpt, How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement: Whatever Happened to 2020?
Does Political Message Matter or Not?
"Race vs. Class" is a Tactical Question Masquerading as a Question of Values
Let Me Reiterate the Questions I Asked in My AOC Essay
Marvel Problems, One Project at a Time
Subscriber Writing August 2023
Prologue to an Anti-Therapeutic, Anti-Affirmation Movement
Digest, 8/3/2023: King of Kings
Beware the Man Who Brings a Graph to Show What a Statistic Reveals More Precisely
I Keep Writing the Same Poptimism Piece Because Nothing Ever Changes
Technically July Call of Subscriber Writing
The Internet is Broken and Will Never Be Fixed
Subscriber Open Thread, 7/30/2023
Digest, 7/29/2023: And Miles to Go Before I Pee
My Official Response to Critics of My New York Magazine AOC Essay
What Would a Functioning System of Equal Opportunity Look Like for the Losers?
Digest, 7/23/2023: Eating Snowflakes with Plastic Forks
Like All Economic Forces, NIMBYism is the Product of Structures, Not Personal Choice
I'm Not Trying to be Dramatic, But I'm in Hell
Video: Affirmative Action Can Only Help a Small Fraction of Black Youth
Beloved: Part II, Chapters Two to Six
No, I'm Not "Alice From Queens"
"Greedflation" is a Proxy Battle in a Long War
Digest, 7/9/2023: Pocket Full of Sunshine
Beloved, Last Chapter of Part I, First Chapter of Part II
There is No Such Thing as an Identity
The Point of College, My Dear Glaucon...
Digest, 7/1/2023: All God's Love Means Nothing to Me Now
Affirmative Action Thoughts in an Inelegant List Format
Beloved, Chapters Twelve Through Seventeen
Pixar Was Never a Masterpiece Factory
Beloved: Chapters Eight, Nine, Ten, Eleven
Beloved Book Club Delayed to This Weekend
Are Social Justice Politics Serious, or Not?
We're All Just Having Fun Here
Vague Recriminations Can't Fix American Mental Healthcare
Beloved: Chapters Four, Five, Six, & Seven
At the Other End of Your Educational Technology There's a Student's Brain
Digest, 6/10/2023: This is Clickbait
The Real Media Bias is Writing for Each Other (But, Like, They're All Liberals, So... )
Book Club, Beloved: Chapters One, Two, Three
Digest, 6/4/2023: Dearly Beloved
A Housing Abundance Movement Can Help Save America's Wild Spaces
Politics, Not Apology, or What My New Book is Actually About
Book Club, Beloved: Introduction
Goodbye to "Goodbye to All That"
Digest, 5/27/2023: Gnash Gnash Gnash
Not If Representation Matters, But How and When It Matters
Psychotic Disorders Do Not Respect Autonomy, Independence, Agency, or Freedom
Stanford Law Students Are Your Class Enemy
"Beloved" Book Club Starts 5/30
The World Needs Taylor Swift Goblin Mode
By (Repeated) Request: Capital is So Good at Rebuilding Pipelines
Digest, 5/5/2023: Taking You Seriously
The Demographic Dating Market Doom Loop
A Defund/Derek Chauvin Challenge
If You Don't Like Writing, Do Something Else
Digest, 4/29/2023: Nerds on the Warpath
Do We Have a Responsibility to Deal with the Worst Elements of Our Own Coalitions?
What Regression to the Mean Does and Doesn't... Mean
It's Good to Just Be Honest About What You Care About
Digest, 4/23/2023: Just Break Up with the Clintons Already
Yes, We Have to Deal with the World as It Really Is - All of Us, All of It
I Can't Play Subscriber Whackamole, Plus Call for Subscriber Writing, April 2023
Open Thread, 4/15/2023: Nothing Left
I've Finally Made Real Progress in Korean
Digest, 4/9/2023: Happy Easter
Before Politics, There's the World
The NFL Rookie Pay Scale is Somehow Still Under-Discussed
Review: Stephen Policoff's "Dangerous Blues"
Digest, 4/2/2023: There's a Dream in My Brain
Theory of the World, Theory of Mind, and Media Incentives
May "Destroy My Enemies" Be All of Our Law
What's Happened with the Socialist Left
The EduSkeptic's Guidebook 1.0
You Are You. We Live Here. This is Now.
Digest, 3/26/2023: The Past is Epilogue
How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement
You Get Better at Being Psychotic
Education Commentary is Dominated by Optimism Bias
Of Course You Know What "Woke" Means
Subscriber Open Thread, 3/14/2023
Review: The Best Minds, by Jonathan Rosen
Digest, 3/12/2023: House in Hand
I'm Addicted to the Gentle Pleasures of Kim's Convenience
The Lamar Jackson Overcorrection
Some Reasons Why Smartphones Might Make Adolescents Anxious and Depressed
And Now I Will Again Ponderously Explain Why I Am Trans-Affirming
Digest, 3/5/2023: Fire Moonwalk with Me
I Cannot Stress Enough That Grade Point Average is Racially Stratified Too
Being Offensive is an Essential Part of Roald Dahl's Books
The Left Has Never Stood for No Rules or Expectations on Personal Behavior
Subscriber Writing, February 2023
Reggie Fils-Aimé’s Disrupting the Game Is About as Underwhelming as a Wii U
Digest, 2/25/2023: Rare Pokemon
The Democrats Are Bad, But We Can't Leave the Working Class to the GOP
Call For Subscriber Writing, February 2023
We'll Get Dolezals Until the Incentives Change
The Enduring Mystery of Friends
Review: Patrick Bringley's "All the Beauty in the World"
No, Francis Fukuyama is Wrong, Not Just Not Even Wrong
Digest, 2/11/2023: Let This Be Our Little Secret
These Deranged Rich Ladies Are Convenient for Explaining Why We're Leaving New York
Pitchfork and the Death of Things as Themselves
The NFL is Structurally Broken
Do You Want Cancel Culture to Exist?
Once Again, I Will Have to Take a Heavier Hand with the Comments
Of Course Drag Isn't Dangerous, It's Just Played Out and Corny
Subscriber Open Thread: I'm In the Weeds
If I Have to Keep Hearing "Nobody Believes In Us" I'm Going to Jump Out a Window
Remote Work Shifts Costs From Management Onto Employees
Digest, 1/21/2023: Can't Please the Masses
Let's Read Some Lyrics - Iron & Wine's "The Trapeze Swinger"
Book Club: Jesus' Son, "Beverly Home"
Why is Everyone Suddenly Obsessed with "Generational Wealth"?
Be Independent! No, Not Like That
Digest, 1/14/2023: Doctor, Doctor
There is No Such Entity as Productivity
Subscriber Writing, January 2023
ChatGPT and Winograd's Dilemma
Subscriber Open Thread, 1/11/2023
Book Club, Jesus' Son: Steady Hands at Seattle General
The Creative Underclass is Still Raging
Digest, 1/7/2022: And We Watched Them as They Fell
Book Club: Jesus' Son, "Happy Hour"