The Hot Take is Officially Dead

“The Slap” may have killed it.

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Do you remember where you were when you first heard about “The Slap”? Were you watching the Oscars in real-time (unlikely)? Perhaps, like me, you were quietly enjoying a (not very well-done) documentary about the Theranos scandal — despite having already read the book, watched the show, and having just written an essay about the foolishness of derivative…