Freddie deBoer

Author Archive

  • Aug 21, 2025
    brat summer was fake. That’s been my stance for a long while, and I’ve been encouraged recently to learn that I’m not alone in this belief - the belief that the...
  • Aug 18, 2025
    Andrea Long Chu has published a takedown of Thomas Chatterton Williams. Though it’s pegged as a review of a recent book of his, I find it highly reminiscent of...
  • Aug 11, 2025
    The 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...
  • Jul 28, 2025
    On Monday, a federal appeals court made a ruling that threatened to open an old wound for New Yorkers. The court overturned the 2017 conviction of Pedro Hernandez, a bodega...
  • May 26, 2025
    Somebody sent me this video clip of a Semafor podcast where Ben Smith and Max Tani interview GQ staff writer Chris Black, in which Black assures our...
  • Mar 27, 2025
    If there’s one thing you can count on in politics, it’s that both sides will let the other dictate their own messaging. It’s an inescapable condition. Watch a fight...
  • Feb 24, 2025
    I’ve always thought that, when you’re trying to plan your next move, when you’re making a choice, it’s essential step try and weed out both your most...