The Lies of Trauma Merchants
Hasan Minhaj won a Peabody in 2019 for his Netflix series Patriot Act. (Bryan Bedder via Getty Images)
Hasan Minhaj won over progressives by playing the victim.
My colleagues and I filed into the vice president’s office at the publishing house where I worked, crowding around a television that was turned to ABC. The year was 2005. The mood was giddy, as if we were about to witness a public execution—which, in a way, we were.
James Frey, author of the best-selling memoir A Million Little Pieces, had been exposed a…
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