Author: Daniel snow
“107 days” is not merely the duration of Harris’s campaign; it is also her excuse for losing the election. Source link
Readers respond to a guest essay by Keith Humphreys and an article about a fentanyl death. Source link
Jimmy Kimmel’s removal looks more like a red scare than a culture clash. Source link
Legible meaning doesn’t neatly emerge from the world of online discourse. Source link
A civic-minded purpose is key. Source link
“107 days” is not merely the duration of Harris’s campaign; it is also her excuse for losing the election. Source link
This is not just a New York story. Source link
My reaction when I heard about Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension was, Oh, [EXPLETIVE]. I immediately flashed back to the television show that Vladimir Putin took off the air. It was a puppet show. It wasn’t even that great, but its whole thing was that it ridiculed people in power. And it reduced them to the size of puppets. It made them look not just plainly human, but even less than human. And I think that’s the real power of comedians in an autocracy, is that they reduce the tyrant to human size, or even to less than human size. If you…
Censorship is here. “Jimmy Kimmel …” ”Jimmy Kimmel …” “Jimmy Kimmel …” ”Jimmy Kimmel …” But doesn’t look the way we thought it would. “Off the air ——” “Indefinitely.” Government censorship is not really what we’re seeing here. We’re seeing a kind of corporate censorship. “Jimmy Kimmel was suspended by ABC.” They are firing or pausing programs that Donald Trump doesn’t like. We’re only nine months into Trump’s second administration, and already we are two late-night television hosts down. Brendan Carr, the head of the F.C.C., goes on Benny Johnson’s podcast and starts complaining about Jimmy Kimmel. “We can do…
We definitely need to restore America’s trust in vaccines, but the amateur hour A.C.I.P. display isn’t going to do it. Source link