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Matt Christman's Strokes Of Genius #9 | Chapo Trap House
Chapo Trahouse Sep 19, 2025

Matt Christman's Strokes Of Genius #9 | Chapo Trap House

As The Far Right Rises, Don’t Be Ezra Klein
Current Affairs Sep 18, 2025

As The Far Right Rises, Don’t Be Ezra Klein

I am reluctant to keep going after the New York Times’ Ezra Klein, because I recently published a long review of his book Abundance (co-written with Derek Thompson), which was, well, not positive. I don’t want this to end up like my disagreement with “rationalist” writer Sam Harris, which concluded with him calling me “mentally unwell” for writing at such great length about him. (I had actually only written one article, but admittedly it was very long.) There are more things in heaven and earth than Ezra Klein’s bad opinions, and I promise to put a lengthy moratorium on Klein criticism from today forward.

His Book on Charlie Kirk Was About to Come Out. Then His Subject Was Murdered.
Mother Jones Sep 17, 2025

His Book on Charlie Kirk Was About to Come Out. Then His Subject Was Murdered.

For the past several years, Matthew Boedy, an English professor at the University of North Georgia, has been working on a book about the Christian nationalist aims of the conservative powerhouse group Turning Point USA and its late founder, right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk. In his forthcoming book, The Seven Mountains Mandate: Exposing the Dangerous Plan […]