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Louis C.K. attempts a comeback ... Bridget: "People don't want him to exist" ... Can comedians still test out new, risky material? ... Kevin Hart and the modern problem with apologies ... Does Hart have a responsibility to fight homophobia in the black community? ... Comedians as trickster figures ...

Bob denies Christina's charge of "benevolent sexism" ... Christina's critique of mainstream feminist philosophy ... Christina: The Intellectual Dark Web is about fighting cultural authoritarianism ... Bob: The Intellectual Dark Web is a tribe ... Is mainstream feminism opposed to the liberal tradition? ... The political valence of gender differences ... Christina on "fainting couch feminism" ... Is the SJW battle mostly a generational thing? ... Bob says the IDW’s embrace of Ben Shapiro is uncritical and telling ...

Reviewing Christmas 2018 ... Did Elizabeth Warren miss her window? ... Bill: Why I don't count Warren out ... Is the shutdown moving from boring to a crisis? ... Will gravity reassert itself on high-flying Donald Trump? ... Biden's advantages ... The fight between Pelosi and the left over PAYGO rules ... Romney's WaPo op-ed rubs Matt the wrong way ...

Mickey: The best thing Trump's done is limit illegal immigration ... Bob: The best thing Trump’s done is steer NAFTA to the left ... The worst things Trump did this year ... The best and worst Trump appointments ... The best and worst pro- and anti-Trump columnists ... The year in just and unjust firings ... A close reading of Trump's Santa phone call ...

John’s latest in the Atlantic on contemporary racial discourse ... Is the psychology underlying racism the full story? ... What popular sociology gets wrong about black oppression ... This year’s pushback against “SJWs” ... How the “n-word” became taboo ... What does the racial disparity in school suspensions really mean? ...

Meghan's essay on the Intellectual Dark Web, "Nuance: A Love Story" ... How Bloggingheads led Meghan to the IDW ... The Rubin Report, the IDW's salon room ... Why Meghan described IDWers as her "new friends" ... Adam Carolla, Howard Stern, and the spirit of transgression ... Why Jordan Peterson arouses such passions ... Is the IDW just a way to avoid confronting Trump? ... Has the word "fuck" lost its bite? ...

Secretary Mattis's extraordinary resignation letter ... Why did Trump decide to withdraw from Syria now? ... Secretary of Defense David Petraeus? ... Other foreign policy news you may have missed this week ... Heather: You don't change Trump, Trump changes you ... Laughing and crying at the year in foreign policy ...

Has the right surrendered in the War on Christmas? ... Trump's one-man government shutdown ... How McConnell went from RINO to "Cocaine Mitch" ... Matt reflects on the chaos of 2018 ... How left- and right-wing isolationists view withdrawal from Syria ... Did Bill's prediction record recover this year? ... Were Matt’s pre-scandal reservations about Kavanaugh prescient? ...

New York City's proposed "anti–dick pic" law ... Good intentions, bad results ... Why Tumblr banned porn last week ... Is the anti–sex trafficking FOSTA law wrecking the Internet? ... Elizabeth on the government crusade against Backpage.com ... Where's the feminist pushback? ...

Heather MacDonald’s new book, The Diversity Delusion ... What is the "Ferguson effect"? ... Is "stop and frisk" the price to pay good law enforcement? ... Structural vs. individual explanations for racial disparities in crime ... Making sense of the academic skills gap ... Why student activists are rejecting the Western canon ... What’s the alternative to the Enlightenment? ... Heather questions the existence of a campus “rape culture” ... Differences between campus and workplace sexual assault ...