Evangelical animus • Nikole Hannah-Jones • Sha’Carri Richardson • collapsing Fla. politics • against color-blindness • GOP monarchs • plus John Stoehr's week
The weekend edition of the Editorial Board!
(Three news items. One, I did not post my own writing on Wednesday due to an emergency too completely absurd to respect with recounting. Two, the Editorial Board has a new web address. It is no longer stoehr.substack.com. The new web address is editorialboard.com. This is part of some fresh and exciting changes coming up. Three, please welcome to the board our newest writers Matt Gabriele and Chrissy Stroop!)
Welcome to the weekend edition of the Editorial Board, where you will find a roundup of everything produced over the last week by our amazing stable of writers.
This week featured me, too. Here’s what you may have missed:
• Tuesday July 6, 2021
The Very Serious Debate Club Read more• Thursday July 8, 2021
Donny Deutsch's gothic contempt for work Read more• Friday July 9, 2021
Republican gothic Read more
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On that note, here’s the weekend edition …
July 7, 2021
Study finds white evangelical support for Donald Trump wasn't about partisanship. It was about animus toward minorities
No one should have been surprised by evangelical Trump support, and that the American public has done such a poor job of grappling with the issue is a sad commentary on civil society, writes Editorial Board member Chrissy Stroop.
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July 7, 2021
The reporter who broke the news about Nikole Hannah-Jones tells the rest of the story
As a veteran of newsrooms, I can assure you Black women still have to work twice as hard for half as much success, writes NC Policy Watch’s investigative reporter Joe Killian. To have the success NHK has had? Just imagine the work.
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July 7, 2021
The World Anti-Doping Agency veered from its lane into the racist history of cannabis prohibition
The World Anti-Doping Agency should stop policing drug use outside of competition. It’s none of their business what athletes are doing unless it’s giving them an illicit advantage, writes Editorial Board member Lindsay Beyerstein.
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July 7, 2021
A condo isn't the only thing collapsing in sunny Florida. So are decades of conservative politics
Individuals do not make the best decisions. They make self-interested ones. Government is there to make the hard political decisions that individuals cannot, or will not, make on their own, writes Editorial Board member Claire Bond Potter.
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July 5, 2021
Color-consciousness, not colorblindness
Giving Black farmers something because they are black is problematic, writes Editorial Board member Rod Graham. Instead, the government should give farmers debt-relief because they are and have been victims of discrimination.
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July 3, 2021
The authoritarian right of the United States has adopted the political discourse of monarchy
The right has adopted an authoritarian mode of discourse because they think they embody the will of the people, the nation itself, and so are the only legitimate political actors, writes Editorial Board member Matt Gabriele.
The Editorial Board seems to be like the neoliberal version of Nathan Robinson’s magazine, only lacking all the intellectual curiosity and fine design + an insane revanchist tendency to platform the worst of woke/institutional/very smart people despite how precisely no one has faith in these bad actors. Imagine retweeting CNN and wanting others to think you have the secret knowledge. Subscribe to Bari’s or Deboers substack for something, subscribe to the Editorial Board if you want to be delivered the progressive Eucharist daily despite not believing in it. Fascist always delete unfavorable comments first, before they turn full psycho. God bless this mans family.