About The Ivy Exile
About
Progressivism is supposed to be about winning the debate, but lately has switched to stigmatizing and censoring it. I know, because I’ve been part of the problem: as reporter and hype man for prestigious institutions, I helped push discourse into dogma.
It’s not what I’d envisioned as an idealistic Brown grad moving to New York to become a public interest journalist under my hero Bill Moyers. But the market for substance was in steep decline, and I ended up an all-purpose flack across Columbia sugarcoating dubious scholarship and weaving luxury narrative on demand.
Is there a way to turn that amoral experience back to the common good, and encourage the conversations I used to squelch? That’s what The Ivy Exile is about, rekindling debate and rescuing the movement from itself.