Will ShetterlyShould Writers Use Pseudonyms?If I could only give one piece of advice to anyone who goes online, it would be to use a pseudonym. For most of my life, I thought using…Oct 28, 20227Oct 28, 20227
Will ShetterlyA Black Guy Shouts At Me, and It Brightens My DayI wrote Things I Didn’t Say to a Black Racist Bicyclist after an unusual meeting with a stranger. Today I had such a typical encounter that…Jun 17, 20224Jun 17, 20224
Will ShetterlyThings I Didn’t Say to a Black Racist BicyclistNote: In the comments, a few identitarians suggest I made up this story. I understand why they think it’s odd — I thought it was odd when…Jun 9, 202219Jun 9, 202219
Will ShetterlyWho is Comrade Morlock?For forty years, it looked like H. G. Wells was wrong about humanity being divided into Eloi and Morlocks. Under New Deal economics, the…Jan 1, 20229Jan 1, 20229
Will ShetterlyHow racist am I? — Project Implicit and other tests for racismFor most of my life, I believed the notion that inspired the Avenue Q song, “Everyone’s a little bit racist.”Mar 4, 20213Mar 4, 20213