Media Criticism - Hex Index

Politics should be more boring

Matt Yglesias · Slow Boring ·Aug 27, 2026 · 12 min read · Media Criticism

Politics should be more boring

Texas moves to protect kids—and Women—From 'demonic' sex education book

Various · Reason ·Aug 26, 2026 · 11 min read · Media Criticism

Texas moves to protect kids—and Women—From 'demonic' sex education book

Daughters who will never be mothers

Various · Compact Magazine ·Aug 26, 2026 · 12 min read · Media Criticism

Daughters who will never be mothers

The age of disinvention

Cory Doctorow · Pluralistic ·Aug 25, 2026 · 19 min read · Media Criticism

The age of disinvention

The freedom 250 IndyCar race only looked like MAGA propaganda if you already hate the administration

Various · Reason ·Aug 25, 2026 · 12 min read · Media Criticism

The freedom 250 IndyCar race only looked like MAGA propaganda if you already hate the administration

The Edu-Optimists, part II: Credo, the Pro-Charter research shop that won’t take no effect for an…

Freddie deBoer · ·Aug 25, 2026 · 26 min read · Media Criticism

The Edu-Optimists, part II: Credo, the Pro-Charter research shop that won’t take no effect for an…

Black people keep being found hanging from trees. Officials keep ruling it suicide

Kahlil Greene · History Can't Hide ·Aug 22, 2026 · 10 min read · Media Criticism

Black people keep being found hanging from trees. Officials keep ruling it suicide

Born on technology's third base

Cory Doctorow · Pluralistic ·Aug 21, 2026 · 16 min read · Media Criticism

Born on technology's third base

Damages award stemming from project veritas project set aside by D.C. Circuit

Various · Reason ·Aug 21, 2026 · 11 min read · Media Criticism

Damages award stemming from project veritas project set aside by D.C. Circuit

Are the polls overestimating Democrats again?

G. Elliott Morris · G. Elliott Morris ·Aug 21, 2026 · 11 min read · Media Criticism

Are the polls overestimating Democrats again?

Wait! What?!?!: “Mr albouy reaches his conclusion by omitting half the data from the original…

Brad DeLong · DeLong's Grasping Reality ·Aug 20, 2026 · 15 min read · Media Criticism

Wait! What?!?!: “Mr albouy reaches his conclusion by omitting half the data from the original…

Economists should be worried about birth rates

Noah Smith · Noahpinion ·Aug 19, 2026 · 19 min read · Media Criticism

Economists should be worried about birth rates

Meme after meme shows jayden daniels made one of the dumbest P.R. Fumbles in sports history

Various · Reason ·Aug 18, 2026 · 10 min read · Media Criticism

Meme after meme shows jayden daniels made one of the dumbest P.R. Fumbles in sports history

The invisible faction that dominates the democratic party

Matt Yglesias · Slow Boring ·Aug 18, 2026 · 11 min read · Media Criticism

The invisible faction that dominates the democratic party

Perhaps "woke 1.0" is an admission of past mistakes and a commitment to doing better

Freddie deBoer · ·Aug 17, 2026 · 13 min read · Media Criticism

Perhaps "woke 1.0" is an admission of past mistakes and a commitment to doing better

The world that knew too little

Dan Perry · Dan Perry ·Aug 15, 2026 · 12 min read · Media Criticism

The world that knew too little

How vivek ramaswamy’s mom manipulated alzheimer’s data and made her son rich

Judd Legum · Popular Information ·Aug 14, 2026 · 11 min read · Media Criticism

How vivek ramaswamy’s mom manipulated alzheimer’s data and made her son rich

Capital formation

Cory Doctorow · Pluralistic ·Aug 14, 2026 · 24 min read · Media Criticism

Capital formation

Dreaming of zhu rongji's China

Various · Sinification ·Aug 14, 2026 · 12 min read · Media Criticism

Dreaming of zhu rongji's China

I reanalyzed the raw data from Wisconsin's primary polls. Here's what actually went wrong

G. Elliott Morris · G. Elliott Morris ·Aug 13, 2026 · 24 min read · Media Criticism

I reanalyzed the raw data from Wisconsin's primary polls. Here's what actually went wrong

The secret society of nerds who control Congress and ruin our health care

Matt Stoller · BIG by Matt Stoller ·Aug 12, 2026 · 14 min read · Media Criticism

The secret society of nerds who control Congress and ruin our health care

OpenAI's Zero-Day leviathan breaches hugging face's Black-ICE security wall: How i think you should…

Brad DeLong · DeLong's Grasping Reality ·Aug 12, 2026 · 11 min read · Media Criticism

OpenAI's Zero-Day leviathan breaches hugging face's Black-ICE security wall: How i think you should…

On Substack-Pangram partnership: It's about sending a message

Alberto Romero · The Algorithmic Bridge ·Aug 12, 2026 · 17 min read · Media Criticism

On Substack-Pangram partnership: It's about sending a message

Surveillance vs guillotines

Cory Doctorow · Pluralistic ·Aug 11, 2026 · 20 min read · Media Criticism

Surveillance vs guillotines

The poverty of anti-tech thought

Noah Smith · Noahpinion ·Aug 11, 2026 · 28 min read · Media Criticism

The poverty of anti-tech thought

We must save sociology from itself

Yascha Mounk · Persuasion ·Aug 10, 2026 · 10 min read · Media Criticism

We must save sociology from itself

The bureaucratic AI arms-race is mutually assured destruction

Cory Doctorow · Pluralistic ·Aug 10, 2026 · 12 min read · Media Criticism

The bureaucratic AI arms-race is mutually assured destruction

Cambridge university's disgrace

Michael Huemer · Fake Nous ·Aug 8, 2026 · 13 min read · Media Criticism

Cambridge university's disgrace

WarTalk: Odyssey edition

Jordan Schneider · ChinaTalk ·Aug 8, 2026 · 61 min read · Media Criticism

WarTalk: Odyssey edition

Censorship will never solve antisemitism

Yascha Mounk · Persuasion ·Aug 6, 2026 · 11 min read · Media Criticism

Censorship will never solve antisemitism