A favorite tactic of the self-identified iconoclast

A good line by Lauren Oyler, in a Harper’s article about the Goop Cruise:

“A favorite tactic of the self-identified iconoclast is to argue that things that have already happened need, still, to happen.”

I like the placement of “still” and the commas a lot. Is “self-identified” one notch too sneery? Would “would-be” be better? Or even no adjective at all? Maybe the second part of the sentence does enough to establish that the title of iconoclast has not been firmly earned by its claimer.

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Published on October 12, 2025 09:16
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