The Post-Partisan Emporium

  Kill the Past and Make Yourself a God whoops, it didn't work Chris Bray No one has ever been brave or virtuous before. They  tried , In Brave and Virtuous 1.0, but they couldn’t pull it off, because they only had pieces of paper. A few people now are the very first to ever succeed at being SO AMAZING, because of like TikTok and stuff, which makes other people very angry. Thus  explaineth   Rolling Stone , which presumably publishes stuff like this because they have an editorial drinking game around the office where the players have to try to top Sabrina Rubin Erdely. Actual headline, and don’t miss the is-this-from-Google-translate subhed: “History has shown us that those in power are obsessed with turning any form of accountability into a phenomenon that is intended to bring us into sudden doom.” Wouldn’t it be fascinating to know what that sentence is supposed to mean in English? It reads like  Johnny Cash’s Cadillac , assembled from unmatched parts over the course of twenty ye

  The War on Insensitivity CJ Hopkins So, here’s a “conspiracy theory” for you. This one is about the global-capitalist thoughtpolice and their ongoing efforts to purge society of “insensitivity.” Yes, that’s right, insensitivity. If there is anything the global-capitalist thoughtpolice can’t stand, it is insensitivity. You know, like making fun of ethnic or religious minorities, and the physically or cognitively challenged, and alternatively gendered persons, and hideously ugly persons, and monstrously fat persons, and midgets, and so on. The global-capitalist thoughtpolice are terribly concerned about the feelings of such persons. And the feelings of other sensitive persons who are also concerned about the feelings of such persons. And everybody’s feelings, generally. So they’re purging society of any and all forms of literary content, and every other form of content, that might possibly irreparably offend such persons, and persons concerned about the feelings of such persons, and an