It's harder to drop back and observe than to participate in the information and culture war

(Not the post I had planned. Plus an update for paying subscribers)

This week I caught myself in a trap.

I was working on a long piece suggesting parallels between current social justice ideology and religion. Much of it original and some of it drawing on the work of dispassionate thinkers who I admire. It's going to be a good one.

Then I deleted most of it and started again. This was because I'd been using some of the t…