(See here for Introduction to 2013 Kindle edition). There is now an extreme control of American political debate that wasn’t the case ten years ago. The internet is a two-edged sword. It’s disintermediated journalism—it makes possible non-PC publications like VDARE.COM, we can find audiences and build an institution. But it also means that anybody who writes for us gets relentlessly hunted down. This is why [ another dinner guest] doesn’t write for VDARE.com under his own name anymore. In fact, almost nobody writes under their own name anymore, except me and other a couple of other old lags like John Derbyshire, because I can’t have younger people taking the risk—It is just too damaging to careers, even in completely unrelated areas.