This is a pretty good read on Stephenson. His problem has never been his writing, and the piece doesn't criticize him on those merits. Stephenson is a libertarian ideologue, which is to say that he believes himself to be an apolitical rationalist. From the article:
the desire to escape politics inevitably yields its own kind of politics, and it’s in Stephenson’s unexamined assumptions that the myopic contours of his worldview begin to reveal themselves.
This is a pretty good read on Stephenson. His problem has never been his writing, and the piece doesn't criticize him on those merits. Stephenson is a libertarian ideologue, which is to say that he believes himself to be an apolitical rationalist. From the article:
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