By my count, there are many fewer commenters than there were with Disqus, the comments are shorter by design, and have much less content. There are no such restrictions on the essayists who, if anything, have become more inane than before: one constantly writes about abortion (bad), another about all white people being racists (also bad, though she is good), and another about the book he just read or the bishop he just bumped into. Everyone writes about Trump as if they now have the answer to a question they never understood: what would make so many Americans choose this man over Hillary Clinton? (Hint: if the answer contains the words "racist" and "misogynist," it's nothing but sophomoric pseudoanalysis.

This is the stuff of high school yearbooks. The people I've met on this site are better than this. I've enjoyed the back-and-forth, but I can't do this anymore. - Monica.