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Opinion | The Future of Nonconformity (Published 2020)
There is a growing federation of independent thinkers and writers not subject to mainstream media’s increasingly narrow range of acceptable thought.
Andrew Sullivan • Andrew Sullivan: See You Next Friday
At school and church, I was a nonconformist in certain minor ways, and learned to bear the embarrassment that nonconformity brings with it.
Herbert A. Simon • Models of My Life
This is where this approach becomes toxic. Only an information outlet with the experience and savvy of a century, like the Times (and, maybe, only the Times itself), could produce an initiative at the level of The 1619 Project. But all that means is that other self-serving, truth-questioning endeavors will meet a lower standard of production. The t
... See moreAshley Rindsberg • The Gray Lady Winked: How the New York Times's Misreporting, Distortions and Fabrications Radically Alter History
And too much of a focus on our intuitions about social media’s echo-chamber effect could obscure the relevant counterfactual: a conservative might abandon Twitter only to watch more Fox News.
The New Yorker • How Harmful Is Social Media?
I am inclined to believe that these schools are justified more by the eccentrics who resist the system than by the conformists who come out as the system intends. It is now becoming obvious that the same
Alan Watts • In My Own Way: An Autobiography
What’s puzzling, given how carefully people toe their respective party lines, is that there is no minister of propaganda nor a ministry of truth enforcing any explicit stances. We expect this degree of ideological conformity to be the product of a centralized power handing out punishments and rewards. But, as far as I know, there is no single autho... See more