E188. Noah Rothman Thinks The Lunatics Are The Ones Left In The Political Arena

Noah Rothman returns to discuss his new book, The Rise of the New Puritans: Fighting Back Against Progressives' War on Fun . He and Bridget discuss the cultural role reversal that he's documenting which is very new and still evolving, how being charitable to the other side doesn't sell anymore and you have to be totally convinced of the righteousness of your views, and why trying to create an intellectual monoculture is the pathway to destruction. They also cover how the rules around sex have become so fraught and complicated that younger generations are just not having sex, how politically we're left with a band of fanatics who doesn't understand how politics works, why SJWs' primary targets are people who agree with them, and how whimsy and irreverance are the only answer to this tone of self-seriousness.

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