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Was I a DEI hire? It's a question that I sometimes toss out in the company of friends who—like me, and maybe like you—have a complicated relationship to their job. I've worked at WIRED as a writer for eight years, and with much success. Eight years is also an eternity in news media, and especially if you are Black. All industries suffer from unique growing pains. Ours just so happens to have laughably high turnover rates, a distaste for racial and gender diversity, and the dubious distinction of being perpetually on the verge of extinction. So on nights when friends and I gather, trading war stories of workplace microaggressions and corporate mismanagement under damp bar lighting, we wonder how we've lasted as long as we have.

For fifteen years I've scalped tickets to pay the bills. But in January 2016 I almost managed a real career. I was thirty-one, I'd been in Los Angeles for five years writing scripts. There had been minor successes, a couple of small projects optioned, and I'd recently started writing with my best friend. We were writing constantly, making each other better, building momentum.

Why are young conservatives so radicalized? Why is there such a stark generation gap, something you hear about any time you talk to any Republican of any prominence, between the basically optimistic assumptions of late-middle-aged conservatives and the black-pilled doomers born after the Reagan era? There are a lot of stories you can tell here. The young conservatives are mostly men, so you can talk about male struggles in a postindustrial economy or how the polarization of men and women makes sexual frustration an engine of radicalization. Young conservatives are also very online, so you can blame tech oligarchs and their algorithms or just cast the internet writ large as an engine of pessimism. You can blame President Trump, postliberal philosophers, racist podcasters. You can fold young male disillusionment into much bigger stories — the crisis of post-Cold War liberalism, the era of bad economic feels that Covid ushered in, the sense of human obsolescence under digital condition…

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