I chose this because I know from my own experience how hard it is for any gentile to write about this topic truly and honestly, neither flinching from the points that need to be made forcefully, or saying something that can be construed as, or actually is, anti-Semitic. Happy trails! Working for all of you has been the greatest thing I have ever done in my life. Or that it would be possible for everyone, everyone in America. I honestly hope that the President has used the line. Thanks for everything. Seeing our own tiny corner of the campaign documented amidst your reporting of important events from all over the country on that historic day provided a sense of validation and connection with the larger campaign that I still savor to this day. That, more than any other post, changed my thinking. The "Majority-Minority" Myth Our racial future may not be what we have come to believe. An essayist for Time magazine, a columnist for The Sunday Times of London, and a senior editor at The New Republic, he is also the editor of "The Daily Dish," one of the most widely read political blogs on the Web. They would send me memos back. During those days, I remember telling people, very happily and repeating myself as I often do, that Andrew was “on a roll”. "I was among the first to recognize this potential for individual freedom of speech, and helped pioneer individual online media, specifically blogging, 20 … But it’s serious inasmuch as it conveys real ideas and feelings in as unvarnished and honest a form as possible. It erases them not merely as citizens, but as human beings. Favorite moment of Dishness? You got spun up by the spin, overly dramatic and as you’ve been known to do over the past decade, shrill. The Dish may be dying, but the mission of the Dish will continue in the future work of this brilliant team. But I loved it nonetheless. He is the author of The Conservative Soul and Virtually Normal . The format is God’s gift to Daddy. Andrew Sullivan Caitlin is a longtime writer at The Atlantic and the author of several books — the most recent is “Girl Land” — and she’s a frequent guest-host on the Femsplainers podcast. While you hold it you can’t get lost. That prayer was selected by Matt, the heart of Dish Sundays. (Substack’s content guidelines draw a line at hate speech.) During the clusterfuck known as gamergate, you took the time to try to understand the perspective of the nerds who felt their culture was being co-opted. I also began volunteering my efforts for HuffPo’s live-blog on the story, and started collecting those chilling videos of Iranians chanting Allah-o Akbar from their rooftops. Forgetting that I’m wearing PJ pants. His freakout made me laugh out loud. Working together these last two years necessarily impinged on our friendship, with discussions of “business” always threatening to intervene. Thank you. Those five-link memos quickly swelled into 50-link ones. OK, you asked for “embarrassing” – now this was EMBARRASSING, from October 5, 2004: Well, I could easily be wrong, but I have a feeling Cheney will crush Edwards tonight. The closing interview [seen above] with the recently retired director of the National Security Agency may have been the most Daily Show–like thing Oliver did, but it was still worth doing.The opening string of topical one-liners wasn’t … Unafraid conversations about anything andrewsullivan.substack.com. Maybe when the networks called the 2012 election he was never supposed to win. As you can see in the accompanying screenshot of Sullivan’s Dish archives, in the nine months following Sullivan’s 2005 announcement that he was stepping down from blogging, he updated The Dish 1,564 times. I can’t help but feel joy that my friend is leaving blogging behind. But my first order of business is to recover from seven years of sleep deprivation. things that change. Chris is an old friend and, in my view, one of the sharpest right-of-center writers in journalism. I literally spat out my drink and started choking because I was laughing so hard. Those of us who had been against the war from the beginning were being told, by you, and others, how wrong, stupid, etc. In one fell, final swoop. When The Dish was moved behind a paywall in 2013, a White House aide passed on a complaint to Mr. Sullivan: Mr. Obama was locked out of a favorite blog. Far from it, as readers of this blog certainly know. I wouldn’t trade these years for any others. Its victory is a sign and a proof that the deepest darkness can be turned to light. The photos, the setting, the dogs, the look in your faces: I’ve been reading you for 10+ years and you kept me looking forward and to know hope. Another takes this post to a whole new level: Favorite may not be the right word, but for me the most memorable moment of pure Dishness is this video takedown of Joe Solmonese (when he was the head of the Human Rights Campaign) that you did at an AIDS vigil on the National Mall at the beginning of the Obama administration. By Andrew Sullivan. In my humble opinion, no fried chicken comes close to Popeye’s and I have also eaten there a couple times a month for as long as I have lived in the US. An “esoteric” moment of Dishness? Or maybe I should say “Our Dish.“. Likewise, to say the least. Super creepy, but I had to memorialize the event because it was a huge fucking deal to me. The Dish may be dying, but the mission of the Dish will continue in the future work of this brilliant team. And it’s so true: People who have kids lead profoundly different lives that childless adults, regardless of their sexual orientation. In fact, we lost and lost and lost again. Andrew wrote the blog alone for the first six years, for no pay, apart from two pledge drives. This core truth is what Justice Kennedy affirmed today, for the majority: that gay people are human. All of it. I knew instantly that the church I loved would double down on its past, clamp down on any dissent, hide any scandal as well as it could, and risk becoming a narrower and tinier sect of purists. But one I think deserves attention is the whole Obama/Road Runner thing. Yes, we absolutely will. It was for those yet born. When Sullivan joined Substack, over the summer, he put the company’s positioning to the test: infamous for publishing excerpts from The Bell Curve, a book that promotes bigoted race “science,” Sullivan would now produce the Weekly Dish, a political newsletter. I downloaded the I Was Wrong e-book you put together that traced your thinking from the beginning and I understood how difficult it was for you to admit your error. “I don’t expect that we’re going to weigh in on this,” Boehner said. That evening we shared what would be the first of many long meals together, with me awkwardly asking questions about his dissertation and trying not to seem as nervous as I really was. A religious reader: My huge and everlasting thanks for introducing me to the term “Christianist”. What I have written here should not be regarded as interchangeable with more considered columns or essays or reviews. When you talked about paying your interns. Is this thread an all-time low or all-time high for The Dish? Iraq should have taught me your capacity for tunnel-vision, but it took Sally Ride to really cement it for me. Shits of this nature will often be accompanied by a mid-level whooshing sound which is the reason for the name. The same goes for most of our editorial model. So we set one up here, with the help of Tinypass. And yet, in the end, it is quite simple. A weekly diary on life in Trump’s America. Seven years ago there was, and still is, no better place on the Internet for keeping abreast of news, arguments, ideas, and the penetrating thoughts and experiences of complete strangers – the Dish’s readers. Politics are taboo in the garden blogging world, so that view told me a fellow garden blogger was also a Dish reader. The Clintons embraced the Defense of Marriage Act, and their Justice Department declared that DOMA was in no way unconstitutional the morning some of us were testifying against it on Capitol Hill. So while I will miss Andrew’s blogging, and now find myself considering what comes next in my own career, I am relieved that Andrew and I simply can be friends again. I insist you leave the site up for at least a year. I’m dying. Probably hard to call such a sad video a favorite moment, but years later it stays with me: It touches on many Dish themes: dogs, faith, addiction, love, redemption, city living. Later, Chas and I dreamt up and built Dish Prep, our staff-only website that has served as a clearinghouse for identifying and assigning the stories you see published on the Dish. I can’t say thank you enough to the whole Dish team who made it happen. The emergence of Pope Francis – the sheer miraculous grace of it – suddenly eclipsed the despair. He totally posted that because he thinks it’s sexy! The truth is a relationship. If you want to contact any of them, please email staff@andrewsullivan.com . Andrew wrote the blog alone for the first six years, for no pay, apart from two pledge drives. Was it not Jesus himself who said: “I am the way, the truth, the life”? It pained me and enraged me as the church tried to blame its own foul abuse of children with gay priests. (By Joe Sohm/Visions of America/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) If there’s one core assumption shared by the two tribes of our culture, it is that America will soon be a “majority-minority” nation. I’d send interns batches of 40 or 50 links to evaluate. One of the first questions I get when a person finds out I work at the Dish, and that Andrew is not just my boss but my friend, is about how we met. Within a few years, I was tracking more than a thousand. He started a political blog, The Daily Dish, in 2000, and eventually moved his blog to platforms, including Time, The Atlantic, The Daily Beast, and finally an independent subscription-based format. Unfortunately Bojangles only exists in the southeast, so you Yankees have the mistaken idea that Popeye’s is the best there is. It’s called “The Way It Is”: There’s a thread you follow. I mean, one minute there’s a critique of John Kerry, the next, a tattooed guy wearing his ex-fiance’s wedding dress in an eBay ad.