Huh, I didn’t know about the older TV program or the generic term “current affairs magazine”. Thanks for explaining the context that made you feel you were misled! That said, I still think that’s really a stretch and I don’t think the magazine’s name is meant to mislead.
I think also throughout your comment you generally disparage Current Affairs unfairly (“two or three yahoos in a basement”, “trolling”, “taking potshots”, “fooled into thinking they matter”). I don’t think they’re taking potshots any more than Scott is taking potshots when he quotes people he think are being obtusely wrong. I think there’s a legitimate disagreement here between Scott and Nathan Robinson which gets snarky but also is substantive and reasonable.
(I didn’t know that when I saw this phrase on SSC, but just now I finally looked up the exchange between Scott and Nathan Robinson, and it actually all started with Robinson critiquing a David Brooks column.)
Huh, I didn’t know about the older TV program or the generic term “current affairs magazine”. Thanks for explaining the context that made you feel you were misled! That said, I still think that’s really a stretch and I don’t think the magazine’s name is meant to mislead.
I think also throughout your comment you generally disparage Current Affairs unfairly (“two or three yahoos in a basement”, “trolling”, “taking potshots”, “fooled into thinking they matter”). I don’t think they’re taking potshots any more than Scott is taking potshots when he quotes people he think are being obtusely wrong. I think there’s a legitimate disagreement here between Scott and Nathan Robinson which gets snarky but also is substantive and reasonable.
Re: “major national newspapers”, it looks like that’s referring to this: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/08/opinion/student-mobs.html
(I didn’t know that when I saw this phrase on SSC, but just now I finally looked up the exchange between Scott and Nathan Robinson, and it actually all started with Robinson critiquing a David Brooks column.)