All articles from Freddie deBoer
The New York Fed's New Involuntary Commitment Paper is Methodologically Shaky as Well as Irresponsible
these are only the people James Holmes killed; the 70 that he wounded would not fit comfortably in my newsletterI am indebted to my friend Xun for his help in reviewing my methodological interpretation of the offending paper; I would not have had the confidence to publish this post without his knowl
Why I Need Your Help with My Novel
fucking gorgeous coverTwo months from today, my first novel will be published by Coffee House Press. I'm very excited and very proud of the book. I've mentioned its origins before. Over the years I've been asked by many people to write a mental illness memoir, and in fact was told by someone at a ma
Joe Rogan is Still Hiding
There's something slippery about the concept of independence, especially in media. It's a term that gets thrown around so often and so loosely that it's come to mean almost nothing at all, other than a vague sense of contrarianism, or the performance of open-mindedness. Independence can serve as a k
Preseason Sunday: I'm Afraid That Justin Fields is Not a Very Good Quarterback
I'm in Persuasion talking about the irrationality of stranger danger fears, and I was in The Times of London this past week writing about Zohran Mamdani. Please check them both out.New Jets quarterback and presumptive starter Justin Fields was carted off the practice field during training camp this
Writing Today: As Gawker to the 2010s, so The Ringer to the 2020s
This is the latest in an occasional series called Writing Today, where I write about writing and media and publishing and the writing life in the 2020s. I was recently on the Changed My Mind podcast talking big think education stuff. Check it out.There's a certain image of the 2010s that I can't sha
The Rage of the AI Guy
AI generated for more cheap irony purposesThe ChatGPT/LLM era is now old enough that the discourse cycle has gone round quite a few times, which means we now find ourselves in the metadiscursive phase, when half of the discourse is about the discourse. Since we're mostly all sitting around waiting f
Trump's Immigration Nightmare Needs to Be Opposed - So Where is the Opposition's Policy?
While his administration seems to have opened new fronts in every political conflict and culture war in our society, there's little question that immigration is the focal point of the Donald Trump 2.0 agenda. Obstructing immigration (both legal and not) has proven to be the clearest line connecting