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September 2019

September 26, 2019

Breaking the Glamour of Greta Thunberg

The social-media-viral cult of personality around Greta Thunberg is a glamour being cast as what...

September 10, 2019

We Have Always Been At War With The Taliban

And our society is too much Aresian and too little Athenian. We are too ready...

August 2019

August 04, 2019

Imposition of order = Escalation of Disorder

"What should we do? We have to do SOMETHING!!!" we yell, in our pain and...

July 2019

July 28, 2019

Minds Do Change And That’s Magic

Magicians seek to alter the consciousness, change the minds, of other people all the time....

July 19, 2019

Space Is For Robots (For Now)

So it pains me to say this, but it's true: beyond Earth orbit, space is...

May 2019

May 16, 2019

Reason, Rhetoric, and Identarianism

What is special about propositions is that they are true or false no matter who...

March 2019

March 15, 2019

“Shaman” Is A Fine Word For A Shaman

"Priest" can be a specific term referring to Catholic religious figures but it also has...

January 2019

January 20, 2019

MAGA Teens, The Native Elder, And Our Projections

Did a teen being dumb about sharing space become, in our national insanity, the screen...

January 05, 2019

A Sigil For Political-Artistic Liberation In 2019

We sometimes think of creativity as a light, playful thing, an airy-fairy luxury for the...

December 2018

December 02, 2018

George H.W. Bush And The Banality Of Evil

I woke up yesterday morning to the news that President Bush -- the first President...

November 2018

November 18, 2018

Jonestown at 40: Religious and Political Lessons

For those of us in the business of unusual religious practices, the fortieth anniversary of...

November 11, 2018

Armistice Day, Veterans’ Day

What we owe our veterans is not some "thank you for your service" platitude. What...

November 05, 2018

Should You Bother To Vote?

It is ironic and problematic that this style of republic, structured from the start to...

October 2018

October 28, 2018

Murder At The Tree Of Life

A few years ago, I was of the opinion that anti-Semitism was something we'd gotten...

September 2018

September 28, 2018

Kavanaugh, Cosby, and the Full Rashomon

Kavanaugh's defenders say "he's not that sort of man". But we would have said the...

September 01, 2018

John McCain, Warmonger

But I didn't come here to talk to you about McCain's misogyny or homophobia or...

July 2018

July 18, 2018

Pagans Are Wild

Who's going to find what we need? The wild ones. The experimenters. The spiritual mad...

July 03, 2018

Throwing The Flag In The Trash

And so every year I have to throw a little plastic flag into the trash....

June 2018

June 28, 2018

Our Problem With Immigration: Inconsistency

At some point in your life, you may have had a job like this: you...

June 21, 2018

Incarceration Separates Families

Looking for consistent application of principles in American politics is perhaps like Diogenes's famous quest...

May 2018

May 13, 2018

The Catonsville 9: What Real Resistance Looks Like

I live in Catonsville, Maryland, a suburb on the southwest side of Baltimore. Catonsville has...

May 01, 2018

Someone’s Prom Dress Is Not Your Culture

Well, the Internet is all upset over a dress again. But this time it's not...

March 2018

March 27, 2018

Cambridge Analytica, Facebook, And Black Magic

Product advertising has been with us since some Paleolithic guy boasted that his flint arrowheads...

March 12, 2018

Amok In America

The fault, dear Americans, is not in our guns, but in ourselves, that we are...

January 2018

January 01, 2018

In 2018 I Resolve To Believe In You

Fractal Cat is a Baltimore band that I've been fortunate enough to watch come together...

December 2017

December 10, 2017

Thoughts On The Great American Sexual Harassment Phase Change Of 2017

As some try to impose order on the inherently chaotic world of sex, romance, and...

November 2017

November 28, 2017

Nazis Are People, Too (As Much As We Want To Disown Them)

If reportage like this seems to normalize race hatred, perhaps that should be a reminder...

August 2017

August 31, 2017

Hearts and Heads in Houston

Somewhere out there among the ordinary people saving lives in Houston is a guy with...

August 17, 2017

Nazis Are Bad. Now What?

While both are wrong, there is not a moral equivalence here between punching someone and...

August 14, 2017

Knowledge, Victory, and Empathy

You have to get into your opponent's head. So to be a good fighter, you...