"I wrote four columns per week on average. If one thinks of those as simple blog posts, perhaps that does not seem like too heavy a lift."

"Over time, however, Spoiler Alerts morphed from being a blog to being much more like a column.... The tone of Spoiler Alerts became less irreverent and more, dare I say, mature.... A lot has happened over the past eight years... I found a few ways of writing about some of this with a bemused tone, but there were limits. The biggest driver for this change, however, is probably a less forgiving public sphere. As I have noted before, Spoiler Alerts was a form of 'contingent writing'.... We live in an age in which retweeting a tasteless joke and then apologizing and deleting it 10 minutes later still winds up being on your permanent record. Not all infractions are equal, and in some cases such behavior merits serious sanctions. There is something bizarre, however, about the capricious nature of reactions and overreactions to acts that less than a decade ago would barely have merited a shrug. It is entirely possible that as a middle-aged straight White guy, my read on this is wrong. Another trend I have noticed over the past eight years is that my inner cranky-old-man voice is starting to get louder. I am keenly aware that this voice is not always wrong, but it ain’t always right, either."

Writes Daniel Drezner, in "Goodbye, farewell and adieu to Spoiler Alerts/R.I.P. Spoiler Alerts, 2014-2022" (WaPo). "Spoiler Alerts" was the name of his column, which wasn't placed very conspicuously in the Washington Post, I don't think, because I read the Post every day, and I hadn't blogged anything by Drezner in years. 

The Post is ending his column, and he's trying to explain or come to terms with this. 

I was interested in his discussion of blogging. I know what it's like to blog and then to write columns that are published prominently. It's very stressful. You think you can take the spirit of blogging and spin it out into a column. But something is very different. You like the big platform, but it's also ruining everything. I can see thinking now I've got to be more thoughtful and mature.

As for his hostility to his own white-man voice... Is that self-awareness? Is he realizing that perhaps he doesn't deserve his position? I can't tell. There's also the fear of everyone who is not "a middle-aged straight White guy." They may catch him on anything — why didn't he say "cis"?! — and destroy his stature. But his column has been discontinued, so he's motivated to come up with reasons why that's all for the best.