"Steel-manning", bad Star Wars prequel takes and a lesson from Arrival

A viral tweet about the Star Wars prequels & pre-orders for my book

If it’s a day that ends in Y, someone is talking about the politics of Star Wars. I just concluded a Clubhouse hangout room about a tweet from Democratic activist and candidate Brianna Wu, which earlier this pointed to the Star Wars prequels as an argument for why libertarianism is evil. This was a good opportunity to talk about what Star Wars does and …