Welcome, readers, to my new Medium-based column around whatever it is that I find entertaining, enraging or empowering in any given week. This doesn’t mean I’m done with my newsletter, or that I won’t be writing anywhere else — this is just another place that I’ll be doing so. I thought about calling the column “EdStrong,” but writing that out made me feel nauseous.
Spotify, a company that makes billions of dollars by paying musicians 1 cent for every million plays of their song, has said that they “condemn” podcaster Joe Rogan’s use of slurs, but…