Sitemap - 2024 - Freddie deBoer
The Modern Curse of Overoptimization
We Can't Sacrifice the Miracle of Pain Relief on the Altar of Ending Addiction
Why Doesn't AI Want to Show Me Jesus Washing the Feet of His Disciples?
Two Brain Teasers for the Pod Save America Crowd
Publishing is Designed to Make Most Authors Feel Like Losers Even While the Industry Makes Money
Fat or Thin, We Are Not Meant to Feel Good About Ourselves All the Time
Book Review Contest Runner Up: Patricia Lockwood's No One is Talking About This
The Jonathan Majors Sentence is Exactly What BlackLivesMatter Was Calling For
Shogun Has a Dumbledore Problem
Subscriber Writing, April 2024
What Would Success Look Like in American Education?
Jon Chait Supported Donald Trump in the 2016 Election
Review: Lauren Oyler's "No Judgment"
Call for Subscriber Writing, April 2024
Treating Every Meaningless Cultural Issue as a Racial Proxy War Helps No One
Some People Wait a Lifetime for a Moment Like This
The Deepest Bias in Media? Fear of Looking Old
Review: Adelle Waldman's Help Wanted
Mike Tyson, Beloved Rascal, and Other Modern Hypocrisies
The Only Way to Continue to Host Comments Here at All is to Get Ruthless
Palestinian Painted Plates & the Nothing Party
The Commodification of Queer Culture is Almost Complete
Descriptivism Self-Negates on Multiple Levels
What (Some) College Administrators Understand That (A Lot of) Wonks Don't
COVID Still Makes Everybody a Little Bit Crazy
... No, We Definitely Want to Use Medical Arguments to Defend Trans Children
The ACLU Is Trying to Destroy the Biden NLRB
Book Review Contest Winner: Love in the Time of Incarceration
Screw You Guys, I Root For Muad'Dib
Review: Kyle Chayka's Filterworld
My Forthcoming Novel, and Why I Won't Write a Mental Illness Memoir
“Think of the Poorest Person You Have Ever Seen, And Ask Whether Your Next Act Will Be of Any Use”
Academia's "Pretendian" Problem Stems From a Few Very Obvious and Basic Realities
One More Time: You Can't Make a Competitive Selection Process "Equitable"
Subscriber Writing, February 2024!
I'm Never One to Yuck Somebody Else's Yum, But True Detective Has Always Been Horseshit
All Things Go, But Nothing Goes Faster Than Sports Glory Goes
To Be Dry and Cutting Your Writing Has to be Good First
Preemies, Genes, Meritocracy, and the Left
Polyamory is a Luxury of the Affluent, Just Like Everything Else We Have and Do
Perhaps Taylor Swift Isn't the Defining Political Issue of Our Times
There's Probably Nothing We Can Do About This Awful Deepfake Porn Problem
February Call for Subscriber Writing, Reader Q&A, and the Book Review Contest Winners
The New World Struggles to be Born, The Old World Struggles to Keep Padding Its Resume
Who is the Real Dr. Peter Breggin, "The Conscience of Psychiatry"?
About Marianne Eloise's Response to My Review of Her Memoir, Obsessive Intrusive Magical Thinking
What We've Lost in Music Criticism
Nick Wright and the Shameless Clown Industry
What We Might Mean by "Liberal Bias"
Gamifying the Self for Status and Profit
Sal Khan, Serial Education Revolutionary
Perhaps Emotional Dependence on Celebrities Has Gone Too Far
No Discourse Has Ever Been More Discourse-y Than Age Gap Discourse
What Goes On in the Public Bathrooms Where You're From, Exactly?
These Rules About Platforming Nazis Sure Seem Arbitrary and Incoherent!