Mea Culpa
I'm back...even though I said I wouldn't be
It’s been almost two years since I announced that I planned to leave Substack because of its Nazi problem.
Obviously, I’m still here.
I will say I did try to leave. I made the effort.
But I ran into some technical difficulties of which I will spare you the excruciating details. The short of it is, because of the way Substack handles custom domains (e.g. thereputationalgorithm.com), a change I made to the configuration of my domain resulted in me getting locked out of my own site for a loooonnnnnnng time.
You may have noticed this when going to the site and getting a domain resolution error.
I tried Substack’s “customer service” chatbot but it promised me all kinds of resolutions but never delivered…until recently.
During the intervening time, however, it became clear to me that center of gravity for the opposition to fascism was right here on Substack.
With historians Timothy Snyder, Heather Cox Richardson, and Ruth Ben-Ghiat putting the present moment in context, strategists like Simon Rosenberg, Dan Pfeiffer, and Ezra Levin analyzing and mobilizing opposition to the rise of fascism, and journalists like Carol Caddwalder, Dan Rather, Paul Krugman and Juliet Jeske, among many others, Substack serves as ground zero for the opposition, if you will.
Substack still has a Nazi problem but at this point, with ICE kidnapping peaceful people off the streets with no due process, I guess where isn’t there a Nazi problem?
So, I’m back here on Substack acknowledging my hypocrisy.
And it’s a tough acknowledgement to make because I have a pretty health contempt for hypocrisy.
But there it is.
I plan to update this newsletter with some articles I’ve published in the interim on LinkedIn, and then continue to update with new articles and book chapters.
Welcome back!