Please don’t write off baby-making as ‘right wing’

One of the easiest forms of journalism is nut-picking.

Go to a protest and find the 20-year-old or the 70-year-old with the dumbest sign and write an article about him or her. Or go online and find a horrific tweet and thus paint an entire half of the country as clowns.

It takes a bit more effort, and a modest expense budget, to pick on the speakers and attendees at fringe conferences. The fringe-conference report is a venerable genre in journalism, and well done, it can be literature. But often the purpose of a fringe-conference report is to gather readers into a point-and-laugh session — or maybe to terrify the reader about some rising menace to democracy.

Politico magazine has a large feature story this

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