> one of the most successful architects of “debate me bro” culture—a particularly toxic form of intellectual harassment that has become endemic to our political

> one of the most successful architects of “debate me bro” culture—a particularly toxic form of intellectual harassment that has become endemic to our political discourse I'm not a fan of the national month of mourning for a b-list podcaster that the right is trying to institute but this is just disingenuous. "Toxic"? "Intellectual harassment"? Does the article's author think that standards of debate were any kinder and gentler in ancient Athens, the Roman Republic, British Parliament, revolutionary era United States, leftist Russian revolutionaries (until they stamped out any debate), etc?