Wrote about campus activism, free speech and what happened in the dean of Berkeley’s backyard newyorker.com/news/fault-lin…

This kang article adds lots of noteworthy details to the protest at the Berkeley law dean's home newyorker.com/news/fault-lin… Thoughtful throughout, and full of opinionated analysis, some of which I agree with and some of which I disagree with.

Recommended!

Is the Taylor backlash finally happening

kang I was insufferable at 20 but only in the sense that I thought The Seventh Seal was the best movie ever made and listened to a bunch of Scandinavian music as a Mexican kid in California. Wemby is Morrissey on steroids lol.

The greatest ever example of the ‘two dudes agreed with each other’ podcast problem

Probably the quickest and craziest ascent to fame I’ve ever seen in my life and I imagine everyone over 40 has no idea who he is.

Caitlin Clark discourse clearly a viral marketing campaign to generate controversy around her before her shoe and ad campaign drops. Everyone loves a ‘haters’ narrative. But i choose to not get trapped by big Shoe

might be an all-timer here in the 'surf car that every dude in the parking lot will ask you about' power rankings

The way he says ‘I’m a guest’ is so good.

The only small criticism I’ll give is that it’s hilarious that the ‘two dudes agree too much on everything’ problem of podcasting still applies to freaking Lebron James lol.

Pains me to say bc I hated him so much when he was at Duke but the JJ and Lebron pod is excellent and basically does what JJ said he wanted to do w basketball

smh match fixing here too. Clearly bet on the hawks. Everyone knows if Diar showed up to the game Atlanta would shoot 3-27 from the line.