Anne Applebaum Is Making A Career

For the October issue of @TheAtlantic I asked whether we want anonymous mobs and secretive bureaucracies to deliver justice in the US. Because in many institutions, due process no longer exists. https://t.co/QivfZLvFrn

— Anne Applebaum (@anneapplebaum) August 31, 2021

Worse, if justice is secretive and anonymous, it can be manipulated for the purposes of ambition or revenge. We invented judges and courts to sort these things out, so why are we relying now on HR departments or faculty committees to decide on guilt, innocence and punishment?

— Anne Applebaum (@anneapplebaum) August 31, 2021

...out of this shit. Chicken Little wants to know her secret.

This is still all bollocks. https://t.co/kybJSujfz0

— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) September 1, 2021

Most things people call “brilliant” are lining bird cages in a few days.  What was the last “end of the world as we know it” scenario she put in “The Atlantic”? Mike Lindell was going to rule us all, wasn’t it? How’d that “brilliant” insight work out after Lindell’s “cyber-symposium”?

Charlie Pierce and I are of one mind on this.