I was having lots of fun on my blog with the Goolag Archipelago story last week. What could be more important to the world than whether Suzy Snowflake was working at Google and talking to her friends about how it feels to be working for a tech firm and, like, how weird it is to actually pass by a real nerd in the hallway, like, twice in one day. But, of course, the doings at Charlottesville, Virginia, were real life, not ruling class posturing, and anyone reading of it on Saturday was bound to think of firebells in the night, or even of Fort Sumter. As I read about it, and thought about the different ways that different media would report on it, I thought not about the people killed and injured, but about me. How would it affect me, and my political positioning. Could I dare to understand the doings of evil white racists? And then I thought:  that’s the whole point of political outrages. The actors are trying to force people to take sides. The whole point of...(Read Full Article)