[alphachloride]

> The site’s now characteristic tone of performative erudition—hyperrational, dispassionate, contrarian, authoritative ...

Reading this, I felt the description hit very close to home with regards to a substantive amount of discourse here. I also learned a new word!

[tgv]

It's very meta, because "performative erudition" could be the subtitle of The New Yorker.

[adenverd]

And just using the phrase "performative erudition" is itself an example of performative erudition!

[krapp]

They should know it when they see it.