Repost: Questions raised by the Alexi McCammond firing

Originally posted on March 22, 2021. Reposted with very minor edits. To recapitulate – in early March of 2021, Teen Vogue announced the appointment of one Alexi McCammond to the post of editor-in-chief. Shortly thereafter, a scandal erupted regarding a series of Twitter posts made by McCammond in 2011-2012, when she was at university, in […]

Repost: On AOC’s statement regarding her recent non-vote

Originally posted on October 6, 2021. Reposted here without edits. Parenthetically, since that time, AOC has grown increasingly more “institutionalist”, which, perhaps, is to be expected of someone transforming from an iconoclastic rabble rouser into a professional politician enmeshed within a large political machine. There is likely more to be said on this topic in […]