<![CDATA[The Present Age: Speech Bubbles]]>https://www.readtpa.com/s/speech-bubbleshttps://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!h9Ik!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F12043fbe-3bb2-4906-9595-9acea6400628_1280x1280.pngThe Present Age: Speech Bubbleshttps://www.readtpa.com/s/speech-bubblesSubstackWed, 08 Apr 2026 05:11:15 GMT<![CDATA[Why Lauren Rankin won't "debate" abortion rights]]>https://www.readtpa.com/p/guest-essay-lauren-rankinhttps://www.readtpa.com/p/guest-essay-lauren-rankinThu, 30 Jun 2022 12:05:03 GMTHi, Parker here. 👋

Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade, erasing the nearly 50-year-old precedent guaranteeing the right to abortion. For Lauren Rankin, whose new book, Bodies on the Line: At the Front Lines of the Fight to Protect Abortion in America, had just come out months earlier, this meant a flood of media requests and an opp…

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]]><![CDATA[A moratorium on "cancel culture" stories, please]]>https://www.readtpa.com/p/moratorium-on-cancel-culturehttps://www.readtpa.com/p/moratorium-on-cancel-cultureWed, 29 Jun 2022 16:17:20 GMTI write a fair amount about my irritation with “cancel culture” stories. Just recently, I’ve touched on the subject here, here, here, here, and here. They’re just so… tedious and tend to be, well, shit journalism.

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]]><![CDATA[Free speech for thee, but...]]>https://www.readtpa.com/p/free-speech-for-theehttps://www.readtpa.com/p/free-speech-for-theeMon, 27 Jun 2022 11:49:49 GMTLast week, former USA Today deputy editorial page editor David Mastio published an op-ed in the New York Post about how unfair it was that he had been “demoted … for a tweet.”

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]]><![CDATA[Bad arguments about speech, made better]]>https://www.readtpa.com/p/speech-bubbles-bad-argumentshttps://www.readtpa.com/p/speech-bubbles-bad-argumentsMon, 23 May 2022 17:19:22 GMTHappy Monday, everyone. I’m here to write a little bit about free speech today. As this is a topic that comes up a lot, I even created a new section for it, called Speech Bubbles. This changes absolutely nothing on your end, but it helps me organize my own thoughts a little better.

Last week, I saw a tweet with an irritatingly-familiar refrain: “Hate spe…

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