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6 days ago | 
freddiedeboer.substack.com | Freddie deBoer
Subscribers, the call for subscriber writing goes out next week. Thank you for your patience as we continue to deal with the anti-sleep terrorist cell in my home. In 2016, a group of student activists attempted to get the campus paper defunded at Wesleyan University, where I grew up.
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1 week ago | 
freddiedeboer.substack.com | Freddie deBoer
I will never not be fascinated by those issues or arguments or perspectives that are studiously ignored by the media generally and the New York Times in particular. I’ve whinged about this many times when it comes to education, as the NYT is simply not going to consider the notion that different individual people have fundamentally different levels of academic potential in its pages, not even in an attempt to rebut the idea.
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2 weeks ago | 
freddiedeboer.substack.com | Freddie deBoer
My first novel is available for preorder. You can find links to do so here. It’s good. I get it: nominating John Oliver as a symbol of liberalism’s failures was well-worn territory a decade ago. This argument has already been made, all the ideological fruit plucked. And the broader debate about liberal condescension as a profound political advantage for the right has percolated in its current form since the 2016 election and in a more general sense for longer than any of us have been alive.
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2 weeks ago | 
freddiedeboer.substack.com | Freddie deBoer
My first novel is available for preorder. You can find links to do so here. It’s good. I get it: nominating John Oliver as a symbol of liberalism’s failures was well-worn territory a decade ago. This argument has already been made, all the ideological fruit plucked. And the broader debate about liberal condescension as a profound political advantage for the right has percolated in its current form since the 2016 election and in a more general sense for longer than any of us have been alive.
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2 weeks ago | 
freddiedeboer.substack.com | Freddie deBoer
Friends, we are in the Baby Tyrant Era of this newsletter. Junho is lovely and wonderful and perfect and deserves to be tried for terrorism for his campaign against our sleep schedule. Mom remains a champion and a hero. I’m excited to get back to work here but we’ll likely have a lighter publishing schedule for at least the next several months.
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4 weeks ago | 
thefp.com | Freddie deBoer
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 over any particular issue, observe the caricature that side A makes of side B’s position, and then watch side B dutifully adopt that as their actual position, as if by magic. It’s remarkable! I guess if the person you hate keeps saying that you’re X, you start to want to become X to stick it in their eye.
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1 month ago | 
freddiedeboer.substack.com | Freddie deBoer
Junho Kang deBoer was born at 10:10 AM today, Wednesday, March 26th. He’s healthy, weighs 7 pounds 5 ounces, has a full head of hair, and according to his mother looks sufficiently Asian. Brave, strong, brilliant Mama is recovering after delivery and is doing very well. Dad is dazed, ecstatic. We started trying in October 2021. Now here are. I’ll be away from here for a bit, not too long. I’ll see you soon.
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1 month ago | 
freddiedeboer.substack.com | Freddie deBoer
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 over any particular issue, observe the caricature that side A makes of side B’s position, and then watch Side B dutifully adopt that as their actual position, as if by magic. It’s remarkable! I guess if the person you hate keeps saying that you’re X, you start to want to become X to stick it in their eye.
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1 month ago | 
freddiedeboer.substack.com | Freddie deBoer
So there’s a new Harry Potter show coming to HBO Max, though not until 2027, and the character Severus Snape is rumored to be played by a Black actor. Portrayed by the white (late) actor Alan Rickman in the Warner Bros films, in a turn considered iconic by Harry Potter fans, the show will feature Paapa Essiedu in the role of the mysterious, cranky, Slytherin-aligned professor. Cue shrieking and counter-shrieking, of a kind we’re all terribly tired of.
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1 month ago | 
freddiedeboer.substack.com | Freddie deBoer
The New York Times’s war on psychiatrynever ends. The paper that wants you to believe that you can cure schizophrenia with Zumba classes and that all psychotic patients can be controlled with a kind word has a dim view of conventional mental healthcare; they usually take a just-asking-questions approach, but you can’t read these pieces without understanding that the paper has a corporate line, an anti-psychiatry one.
