Why Are We Talking About This, Again?
On finding a vocabulary for the meta-conversation in our media
I wish I had a word to describe that particular blend of exasperation and dread one feels when a topic is presented as self-evidently worthy of debate.
We know this irritable sinking feeling when we feel it. A certain public figure might have landed in the news again, and prescient creatures that we are, we’ll recognize that this means we can expect our …
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