I was disappointed to see the Washington Examiner, which normally publishes great work, join the recent flurry of guilt-by-association press reports reacting to my advisory role to Rep. Matt Gaetz.

My great offense was having delivered a talk in 2016 at an organization called the H.L Mencken Society. For this I am promiscuously smeared as someone with “white nationalist” ties who presumably ought to be banned from any future employment or interaction with polite society.