All articles from Freddie deBoer

Stephen Policoff's "A Ribbon For Your Hair"

not for the faint of heart

Subscriber Writing, March 2026

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When People Say They Want to Send Their Kid to a Good School, They Usually Mean Schools Without "Bad Kids"

parents intuitively understand that a school's "quality" is a product of how its student body was selected

Stat Inflation is Bigger Than Any of the NBA's (Many) Other Problems

who cares about a triple double anymore? who is thrilled by a 50 point game?

Great Writers "Tell" All the Time

there is no alternative, really

Overlearning

I largely agree with this piece by Maarten Boudry called “The Fallacy Fallacy.” The central insight is quite correct: the kind of fallacy hunting that’s become popular in the era of online forums and