All About Dave
My biggest piece ever: The tragic rise of former comedian, liberal, and Angeleno, Dave Rubin. Out now in Quillette
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To his friends, Rubin is loyal but sensitive about it. To strangers, he is charismatic and charming. And to those he disagrees with or who have slighted him, he is a vindictive, reactionary bully. As his friends privately admit, he is psychologically ill-equipped for the position in which he has found himself. The story of his meteoric rise to fame is, finally, a strangely tragic one. He is Faust’s Republican, the fallen clown, and the definition of the kind of elitist he has always most despised—hypersensitive, hyper-partisan, and failing upwards.
Months of work, thousands of words, and one hell of a story: my big profile of commentator Dave Rubin, out now in Quillette.
If there’s one story of mine that you read this year, it’s this one.
I promise it’s worth it.