We're all praising how there aren't any trolls here... even as perhaps it shouldn't have been expected, given Kit Hellman 's point that trolls don't read the New Yorker. Still, I think it's worth pointing out that our brilliant critic and lead "sharer" in this group, Richard Brody , has written over and over again for, in a sense, releasing trolls from out under the bridge, and for thinking on how much perhaps anything that is heroically valuable for our enjoyment of life is du e in our age to share the same encysted quarantine as alt-right trolls. In an article on Berkeley, he laments how the institution "suppresses, diverts, or coverts" the very energy it depends upon for its survival, in one on Melissa McCarthy, on how nastiness, which in his opinion is the essence of comedy, is "constrained and sweetened," in one on Linsay Lohan, on how simply because she engages in a thrilling risk that we--valuing nothing ...