media

An Open Letter to Matt Walsh

Mr. Walsh, You have made a career, and a documentary, out of a question you present as profound and a great deal of confrontation aimed at anyone who answers it differently than you do. The confrontation is the brand. The cruelty is not an accident of the format; it is the format. I notice you […]

An Open Letter to Michael Knowles

Mr. Knowles, You said, from a stage, that you wanted what you call “transgenderism” eradicated from public life, and then objected that you meant the ideology, not the people. I want to take the distinction seriously, because words matter and I have no interest in misquoting you. So here is the trouble with it. There […]

An Open Letter to Chaya Raichik

Ms. Raichik, From behind an account, you aim a very large audience at hospitals, teachers, libraries, and clinics you disapprove of, and then describe whatever follows as none of your doing. I have run systems at scale, so I recognize what you have built: a targeting layer. You supply the coordinates and let the crowd […]

An Open Letter to the Pundit Who Debates Me for Ratings

Anchor, You found a reliable formula: seat someone who thinks I deserve rights beside someone who is not sure, point a camera at the friction, and sell the heat as balance. Six minutes, two talking heads, one settled question dressed up as an open one. The format flatters you as neutral. It is not. There […]

My Existence Is Not a Both-Sides Issue

There is a format the media loves: two guests, one of whom thinks I should have rights and one of whom thinks that is up for discussion, talking over each other for six minutes while a host nods neutrally in the middle. It is presented as balance. It is not balance. It is staging a […]