The criminal mindset and how much of the publishing industry is like the Republican party

Monday 7/6/26

The publishing industry is a lot like the higher levels and inner circles of the Republican party. A lot of corrupt, compromised people running cover for each other. It's one reason why none of them speak out, no matter what. Regardless of what evil they witness. Because they're filthy, too, and that would increase the chance of someone revealing the truth about them.

"The New Republic has a zero tolerance policy with sexual harassment..."

No you don't. You have a "We can do whatever kind of evil we please" policy, until you get in trouble, then you say the zero tolerance thing.

This is how it works. It is, again, the criminal mindset. Joshua Boger, for instance, is a perfect example: the criminal mindset. A man with the brain of a criminal. Look at that earlier entry. That's how a criminal thinks. Doesn't mean a crime was committed right then and there or to date or that one will ever technically be. It's a kind of thinking. A mental wiring. People who do heinous things are almost never sorry. They hate you for saying their plainly heinous actions are heinous. They do lip service when they have to because 1. They've been caught and 2. People care that they were caught. That second part is everything.

It's like David Remnick and Jeffrey Toobin at The New Yorker. Remnick has the criminal mindset. He acts like an inner circle member of the Republican party. Toobin got caught doing the things he did, which were reported, but people didn't care. Wasn't lowest common denominator enough, I guess, or didn't prompt someone to come up with some internet friendly term/nickname for his actions. Then he was caught later for something else, which wasn't as bad--you know, just some basic masturbating in front of your coworkers, which takes some doing for that to have be by far the lesser of your transgressions--and the public cared because it could make lowest common denominator/witless masturbation jokes.

At which point Remnick was all, "The New Yorker has a zero tolerance for..." blah blah blah, like the pathetic weak little warped man with a criminal's mindset that he is. This guy could have watched Jeffrey Toobin commit an act of evil monstrosity straight out of a devil worshiping human sacrifice sequence in a Hammer horror film and he wouldn't have given a toss (see? Doing Toobin jokes!) about that. He didn't. It was only when the jokes started. Then it was all, "I'm so moral, oh no, this is so bad, here, I fired him, oh wow, I'd never let bad things happen here."

Criminal mindset. The criminal gets popped. The videotape is played in court. There's the criminal doing criminal stuff. Does the criminal get angry at himself? No. He hates the person who got him on video. He hates the people judging him negatively and who can make him pay for his actions. To keep the gravy train going, that person will offer an apology.

Look at Joshua Boger. Defending a man in David Sedaris who mocks the disabled, says the disabled don't deserve to work, and should stay home so he doesn't have to look at them.

If you're not that evil--and if you are, it's not like you'd have the self-awareness to know it, and you'd be too weak, too, to face it and own it, because by that point, the wheels of change are in motion, and change hardly ever happens, especially with bad people--can you even imagine being that evil? Can you even imagine holding those views? Sharing them? Espousing them? Putting them in a book for the world to see. Sending those pages to your editor, who also had no problem with your hateful views. Your agent, all of these people with zero issue with the idea that the disabled are lowly, less-than-human people, who should stay home, and write in a journal about being disabled.

That's how Joshua Boger also feels about the disabled.

If you know someone who is a child molester, and you have no problem with them being a child molester, and you defend them as a child molester, and scream at and threaten someone who says child molesting is wrong, like Joshua Boger screamed at and threatened me, while saying that the person who says child molesting is wrong is a terrible person who has misbehaved in saying this, then it logically follows that you yourself are totally okay with molesting children.

Right?

Now, if more people cared--and that includes caring for the wrong reasons (people love to be part of a mob)--about what we exposed here with Joshua Boger, and he lost his stuff--titles, position, money, houses, etc.--or was about to, he'd be singing an entirely different aria.

You know that, right? Look at Mike Vrabel. Bad guy. Not as bad as Joshua Boger, but a piece of garbage. Gets busted earlier this year, and he gets angry. Starts shaking his finger, insulting people who are shining the light--or just asking questions--regarding the situation. How dare you, etc. etc.

Then it gets worse for him. He was in a position where he could have lost the things he wants to have. Money, gig, prestige, reputation, no matter how much bullshit that reputation is founded on. That reputation as a man of principles and that's his coaching brand.

So what happens? "Oh, I'm so sorry for those I hurt," blah blah blah, "going to get me some therapy."

Same asshole. Same mindset. He just had to say the things. He hates the people who exposed him. Blames them. That's the criminal mindset. Everyone will say the things if they're caught and that catches on with people as this thing people care about.

If they're a rapist, say, and they're caught, but it doesn't catch on, doesn't apply pressure in a way that can cost them what they have, they simply get back to raping, raping, raping.

When was Lorin Stein "sorry"? He said he was sorry when the jig was up and he was losing what he had. Sure, some other scumbags like Morton Landowne and Alana Newhouse at Tablet would come along later after enough time had passed and hook him up (after Katie Roiphe, whose very business and the basis of her career and the whole of her person is the doing of evil, tried to turn Stein loose on the young women of NYU, but was met with resistance--again, a matter not so much of getting busted, but busted with people caring), but he didn't know that in the time, especially in his panic when he was flailing and trying to think of what he could say to keep the stuff he had.

Which is to say, Lorin Stein was never sorry. Not for what he did. That was fun in his mind. It's what he believed was his for the taking because he's Lorin Stein and that's what he wanted. His right.

Again, the criminal mindset.

There aren't policies at these places. There's what they can get away with doing. What they feel like doing. If they're held accountable, which is a matter of one 1. People knowing and 2. There being outrage, then they say the things. But the things are false. They're lies. There's no "sorry." There's no contrition. There's getting caught, and if that sparks the vocal outrage of a large enough group, then the procedural mea culpa, which is the least meant thing in history and comes from a PR department or firm in AI-encoded language. It's issued through clenched teeth of hate and rage for having to issue it, which is simply an attempt to get it rolling again and get back to how it was.