Searching for a Loose Confidence
I do not want to live like this anymore, scripted and tight and rigid.
Dispatches
Dead Malls and Dreams
Malls sold us canned fantasy. It could have been so different.
Do I Hate the Modern or Just What It Fails to Represent?
Finally, I confess...and realize what I have been missing.
Anger Shows Us What We Protect
“What we usually call anger is only what is left of its essence when we are overwhelmed by its accompanying vulnerability."
How Roy Ayers Put Soul on “Nice”
Roy Ayers coasted on his unique sentiment and vibe. It was sublime, positive, and unfailingly warm and luminescent. What else would you expect a writer, any writer, to say about the musical talent who gave us the song “Everybody Loves The Sunshine”?
Symptoms of Windy Hypochondriacal Melancholy
"You listen constantly, in a kind of trance, for communications from your body; it is as if you have become a medium, and your organs a company of fretful ghosts."
What Elon Musk’s Baby Name Should Have Told Us
Names are significant for Elon Musk. And now, for all of us.
How Zelensky Might Channel Thucydides
It is anyone’s guess as to whether Ukrainian President Volodoymyr Zelensky has read ‘The History of the the Peloponnesian War,’ even if his words spill into realms that Thucydides, with his imperatives for the preservation of law and solidarity against violence and calamity, would recognize at once.
Most Points Wins
The goal is to make you feel slightly more virtuous, briefly. But why stop there? People are crazy, and times are strange.
Scatological Politics
The gut is a place of confusion. And yet, it remains our best guide....