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New at Reason: Michael C. Moynihan on David Denby's Snark Attack
Not long
ago, New Yorker film critic David Denby had an epiphany:
American culture was being debased by “snark,” that “low, teasing,
snide, condescending, knowing” style of criticism, a “bad kind of
invective” that’s “spreading like pinkeye through the national
conversation” and proliferating on the Internet. Michael C.
Moynihan reads his new book attacking the trend, Snark: It’s
Mean, It’s Personal, and It’s Ruining Our Conversation, and
wonders if Denby can differentiate between snark and political
ideas with which he disagrees.
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