Come and talk about food and politics with Amber Husain and @andrealongchu.bsky.social at Books are Magic 2/25

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Zero Tolerance Five years after the George Floyd protests, many liberals blame “wokeness” for stifling open debate. So why can’t they handle being disagreed with?

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The Romance of Being Unreadable In his debut novel, Ocean Vuong took pains to be illegible, then blamed the reader for reading. In his new book, he is finally ready to talk.

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"I Think Most Things Are Bad": Andrea Long Chu on Cruelty, Criticism, and Conviction The Pulitzer Prize-winning critic joined us to discuss her reputation for being a hater and her brand-new collection of essays, "Authority."

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Opinion Pamela Paul My Farewell Column, April 3, 2025. Image of purple ribbon

Turns out April 3 WAS liberation day--not from tariffs, but from Pamela Paul. Her reactionary liberalism paved the way for the authoritarianism we're hurtling toward. Andrea Long Chu's essay on Paul's contributions is not to be missed. nymag.com/intelligence...

Our Reasons | Andrea Long Chu Like any candid analysis of a sexual subculture, this material was seized upon by some readers as lurid and inappropriate, especially given my openness. The gender-critical feminists, in particular, h...

“Story, I think, should be the mortal enemy of the trans writer.” New online: Andrea Long Chu’s afterword to the new edition of FEMALES, out this week from @versobooks.bsky.social.

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Our Reasons | Andrea Long Chu Like any candid analysis of a sexual subculture, this material was seized upon by some readers as lurid and inappropriate, especially given my openness. The gender-critical feminists, in particular, h...

hi so the second edition of FEMALES is now available to buy, you can read the new afterword here www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

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We must remember that the family is one of the few openly authoritarian institutions in a liberal democracy. The liberal tradition since at least Locke has understood parenting as a natural form of authority that, while it is no model for government, is a necessary response to the state of temporary insanity known as childhood. Paul would never claim that political life should resemble family life; what she does seem to say is that if society were more like a family, then politics could be largely replaced by sensible parenting. The task is simply to enlarge the family sphere until it covers the whole republic. This is why Paul's campaign against trans people has focused on "vulnerable" children— or really, their vulnerable parents, whom a horde of quacks and activists have stripped of their natural freedom to dominate the human beings in their care. This is the critical edge: where the reactionary liberal's singleminded pursuit of freedom leads her into the breathless endorsement of authoritarian violence. When Columbia's president called in a notoriously violent counterterrorism unit of the NYPD to raid the student encampments, Paul praised her for acting like a "real grown-up" in a sea of spoiled brats. "Let's hope this teaches the students a lesson," she wrote. "They clearly still have a lot to learn."

Andrea Long Chu on the moms of the far center:

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Goodbye, Pamela Paul The contrarian columnist showed us the intolerable side of liberalism.

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Females “Everyone is female, and everyone hates it.”So begins Andrea Long Chu’s genre-defying investigation into sex and lies, desperate artists and reckless politics, the smothering embrace of gender and the...

oh also i should probably mention that a very pretty second edition of females is coming out on march 4, new afterword by me www.versobooks.com/products/898...

Why Is ‘Dungeons & Dragons’ So Misunderstood? At 50, the game is more popular than ever, but its core appeal is still a great secret.

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Authority A bold, provocative collection of essays on one of the most urgent questions of our time: What is authority when everyone has an opinion on everything? Sinc...

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