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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22, 2020 Even Slate can no longer be sure: To make it in the modern media world, you have to dumb it way down. This ve...

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22, 2020 Two scribes spot "well-informed experts:" In the wake of Sunday night's cable show, the New Yor...

TUESDAY, JANUARY 21, 2020 We've been asking that question for years: At least in theory, the New York Times editorial board is an imp...

TUESDAY, JANUARY 21, 2020 The gang which couldn't endorse straight: It remains amazingly hard to learn who sits on the editorial boar...

MONDAY, JANUARY 20, 2020 All this week, A Very Stable Dumbness: Last week, we started a lengthy series of reports which will lead us all ...

MONDAY, JANUARY 20, 2020 The dumbness of the times: In Saturday's print editions, the headlines sat at the very top of the New York T...

SATURDAY, JANUARY 18, 2020 Also, (all but one of) The Reasons Why Hillary Lost: At some point, should a major political movement decide t...

FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 2020 Just as a small point of reference: We've mentioned some movie reviews this week. Movie reviews are subjec...

FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 2020 The Autumn of '99: Sometimes, you just have to chuckle. Wisely, that's the way we chose to react to th...

THURSDAY, JANUARY 16, 2020 Pseudo-lib anger and dumbness: Anger and dumbness were on wide display in the wake of this week's Oscar no...

THURSDAY, JANUARY 16, 2020 And calls to mind Donald J. Trump: Does it really make sense? Does it make sense to create an "adaptati...

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15, 2020 It what way isn't this dumb? Just for starters, consider Mike Pesca's sad presentation at Slate. H...

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15, 2020 The Summer of '35: How dumb can it get at the top of the cultural/journalistic pile—let's say, with ...