Members Only #140 - Welch Cassingles Jon Chait

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Members Only #140 - Welch Cassingles Jon Chait

Matt Welch

Oct 29, 2022

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Look, it’s the rule: When sufficiently annoyed, record a Cassingle. Except I’m not actually annoyed, just…a tad reflective, about journalism and politics and honesty and comportment, after being accused by New York magazine writer Jonathan Chait of writing something I decidedly did not. Some background material.

* I wrote this.

* Chait then wrote a thing …

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