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

9781596068940

Signed edition
First edition

429 pages ; 24 cm

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 and 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

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