Nothing Before Us
Assurances of progress alternate with threats of catastrophe; promises of improvement are answered by warnings of decline.
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The artifacts of internet life are personal—that is, not professionally or historically notable—and therefore worthless.
American Ghostwriter
This was glorified ventriloquism, in which the Author called upon the American Ghostwriter to play the dummy.
I’m Feeling Bad About America
The campaign song is frequently the porch popular music crawls beneath before it rolls into the fetal position and dies.
This Is Not a Blip
October 2018
Today’s political climate is not simply a passing weather pattern.
Tell Me It’s Going to be OK
Self-care and social retreat under neoliberalism.
Bridges to Nowhere
On liberal dreams of a more imperfect union.
Self-Invasions and the Invaded Self
What do we lose when we lose our privacy?
Been Down So Long It Looks Like Debt to Me
Now thirty years old, I have been incapacitated by debt for a decade.
River of No Return
The swiftboating of everything.
Send Anarchists, Guns, and Money
Cody Wilson is an extraordinary talker. He speaks in memes, generating sticky phrases off the cuff to capture powerful ideas.
The Do-Nothing Discipline
How political science fell into the thrall of fundamentalist forecasting.