Huge long time fan of Matt's, going back well before vampire squid. He's the reason I came to Substack. That said, if Matt returns I hope you can administer some tough love and ask him about his book "I Can't Breathe."
Matt is an ethical journalist. A true professional. "I Can't Breathe," in and of itself, is fair, factual, and honest. However the book pushed the narrative of -- I'll be unapologetically glib here -- Cops Bad, Criminals Good. (We don't need Ibram X. Kendi to tell us what that slogan really means.)
I would like to know if Matt has any regrets about writing that book. A book that contributed to the pendulum being pushed to such an extreme that we now have a sickening crime wave (item: yesterday's carjacking in New Orleans) bizarrely and tacitly cheered on by DAs in nearly every major city. A book that helped grease the skids to "social equity."
Huge long time fan of Matt's, going back well before vampire squid. He's the reason I came to Substack. That said, if Matt returns I hope you can administer some tough love and ask him about his book "I Can't Breathe."
Matt is an ethical journalist. A true professional. "I Can't Breathe," in and of itself, is fair, factual, and honest. However the book pushed the narrative of -- I'll be unapologetically glib here -- Cops Bad, Criminals Good. (We don't need Ibram X. Kendi to tell us what that slogan really means.)
I would like to know if Matt has any regrets about writing that book. A book that contributed to the pendulum being pushed to such an extreme that we now have a sickening crime wave (item: yesterday's carjacking in New Orleans) bizarrely and tacitly cheered on by DAs in nearly every major city. A book that helped grease the skids to "social equity."