There’s a particular brand of cruelty that comes wrapped in the language of principle and resistance, a cruelty that’s all the more insidious because the people perpetrating it genuinely believe they’re doing something noble and necessary. We’re seeing it play out right now with the chorus of pundits and commentators and activists cheerleading for anotherContinue reading “The Privilege of Political Performance: Why Shutdown Advocates Don’t Have to Live With the Consequences”