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>>nicola+(OP)
> The site’s now characteristic tone of performative erudition—hyperrational, dispassionate, contrarian, authoritative ...

Reading this, I felt the description hit very close to home with regards to a substantive amount of discourse here. I also learned a new word!

>>alphac+o9
It's very meta, because "performative erudition" could be the subtitle of The New Yorker.

>>tgv+js
And just using the phrase "performative erudition" is itself an example of performative erudition!