A sports columnist for the Seattle Times resigns after 11 years on the job.
Unfortunately, it is not difficult to imagine the reason.
Thursday, August 20, 2026
The "We are Unworthy" Culture
Spiked: Brendan O'Neill on the Maoist lunacy of the Jason Arday cult.
An excerpt:
He chokes up as he whips himself for the moral error of having very mildly criticised the prof before his death. Reading from a prepared script, like some terrified soul at a 1930s showtrial, he bows and scrapes in performative sorrow for having spoken ‘glibly, frivolously and callously’ of the now beatified professor. That I am a man ‘capable of great callousness’ is now ‘permanently on the page’, he says. I will be tarred for life by my Arday apostasy, he softly sobs – it’s a moral scar ‘I can’t escape’, and that ‘is right, it’s a necessity, to ensure I never make such grave and irresponsible errors of judgement again’.
Judgment
He's sooo correct.
I eagerly await Nicholas Bate's new book on judgment.
And, of course, his next novel.
User Harm: Meta's Internal Research
What The Company Learned About Social Media and Harms to Mental Health from Dozens of Internal Studies
Compiled by Bennett Sippel, Nikolaus Greb, Emma Park, Zach Rausch, and Jonathan Haidt at the Tech and Society Lab at NYU Stern.
This report should get a lot of scrutiny.
And you don't need to be a Luddite to have questions.
[Photo by Rasheed Kemy at Unsplash]
"The Revolution Has a Trust Fund"
How do you know when you've made it in America? When your grown-up kid declares he's a socialist. It means you've given your family a level of material comfort and security so unquestionable that your child has never even thought about how it happened. The very life you've provided him is like a seamless work of art in which all the grueling spadework has been successfully hidden. Good for you. Bad for everyone else.
- Abe Greenwald in the Commentary Newsletter
Wednesday, August 19, 2026
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