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A reader writes, "If ‘corporations only care about money,’ as Parker Molloy insists here, Marvel & Disney wouldn’t keep churning out lefty, progressive…

Mar 29

Corporations care about one thing and one thing, only: making money.

Mar 27

Generative AI like Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, and DALL-E 2 can be fun to play with. There's also the potential for this technology to be used as an…

Mar 22

One would think that cheering the U.S. into war in Iraq would have been a career-destroying mistake. Alas...

Mar 20

Axios fired reporter Ben Montgomery after a Florida state employee posted one of his emails to Twitter.

Mar 17

Putting yesterday's post into real-life contexts.

Mar 14

How a "Seinfeld" scene can help us understand a popular debate strategy.

Mar 13

Yes, criminalizing various aspects of trans people's lives is cultural genocide.

Mar 10

February 2023

A look at Rasmussen's attempt to troll the people it polled.

Feb 28

I was reminded of an old Thomas Friedman column recently.

Feb 24

The New York Times seems determined to repeat every mistake it made in covering the Holocaust

Feb 22

Yes, I let a chatbot write the headline to this piece about why it's irresponsible for news organizations to publish stories pretending that chatbots…

Feb 20

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