Virtue signaling and other heresies: selected writings from Whatever, 2013-2018

Oh, hey, it's time for another one of those author introductions

Standard responses to online stupidity

About that march

Activism, and whether I do it

Adulthood and what being a friend means now

The aftermess

Always and never

An anti-feminist walks into a bar : a play in five acts

And now, a small example of what a generation gap looks like

Apologies : what, when and how

Art and entertainment and Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Batman v Superman, and its reviews

A book sale at the cost of your conscience

Born that way, or not

Boycotts, creators and me

A brief phone text conversation between me and my daughter

But doctor, I am Pagliacci

The Cinemax theory of racism

Dear GOP : we can't save you if you won't save yourself

Disorganized thoughts on free speech, Charlie Hebdo, religion and death

Dylann Roof and the denial of racism

Eight things about Donald Trump

18

Enjoying problematic things

Facebook and your friends

Free speech or not

The four levels of discrimination (and you) (and me, too)

Frightened, ignorant and cowardly is no way to go through life, son

Genius and master

Getting lucky with college costs

Ghlaghghee 2003-2015

Trump, the GOP, and the fall

The greatest of all time

Guilt, mine, and paying it forward, me

Guilty pleasures

Hamilton, and thoughts on the Uncanny Valley of musicals

Harry Potter and the initially dismissive but ultimately appreciative fan

Harvey Weinstein and other abusers

Henry Rollins shows his ass, gets told, owns it

Here's a quarter

Hillary Clinton, considered in herself

How I knew I'd made it

How not to talk about your money, very rich edition

In which I rank the months, because why not

Incels and other misogynists

In which I select a current GOP presidential candidate to vote for, 2015 edition

It's over, Bernie Sanders fans. let it go

Jaqueline Kahn

Jian Ghomeshi and the women he knew

John Boehner's stepping down

Trump, and his jokes, and you

Loathing is a strong word to apply to one's self

Me and Republicans

Meet Keith Johnson

The moral shambles that is our president

Mortality

My day in a wheelchair

My endorsement for president, 2016: Hillary Clinton

My non-spoilery review of The force awakens

My personal feminism

The new year and the bend of the arc

Off with their comments

Oliver Sacks and public individuals at the close

On being an egotistical jackass

On the matter of empathy for horrible people

The 1% of problems

People are the problem and they pretty much always will be

A personal history of libraries

Police and me and Philando Castile

The poverty "state of mind"

Pronouns

Punching Nazis

A Q & A for the post-Weinstein era

Tump is a racist. stop pretending otherwise

Raising strong women

The reputational reset, or not

A season in the show

A short review of Ghostbusters and a longer pummel of manboys

Some musings on Avengers : infinity war

Speech, conversation, debate, engagement, communication

Steubenville and CNN and the rest

Suddenly, nostalgia

That New York magazine cover

There shall your heart be also

These are a few of my favorite things, on tiers

A thing not to do when you're smart

This new America

Thoughts and prayers

Thoughts on A wrinkle in time

20 years

2017, word counts and writing process

The University of Chicago, trigger warnings and safe spaces

Utopias

The ways the Scalzi women are better than me : an incomplete list

Weinstein, Ratner, Toback, etc

Who's cool and who's not

Why the ACA matters to me

Why I didn't go to Bennington College

Why I don't drink or use drugs

Why my wife is amazing, part 73,592

Will humans survive?

Women and geekdom

Wonder Woman : a smash, possibly in different ways than you think

It's all beautiful and nothing lasts.