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Reframes
Weekly essays on politics and culture.
It All Felt Impossible
A quick break in the action. My friend, the author Tom McAllister, has a book out, and it is, in my opinion, good. So I interviewed him about it.
Shows of Weakness
They've got the tanks. We've got the power.
Winning the Middle
What makes for a purity test? What makes for a big tent? Unpacking the apparently pragmatic demand that we Speak Low about fascists to beat fascism.
A City of Two Tales
What to do when the shining city on a hill is actually a burning plantation. Demolishing the lie of exceptionalism, embracing an aspirational truth.
The Everything & The Submarine
Fighting our present fascist nightmare by leaving the submerged life, and pondering the idle and foolish question of what the meaning of life is, anyway.
Our Purpose Isn't Efficiency
Society is not a corporation and we are not its employees. Moving the sick American spirit toward health by abandoning fool notions and damned lies.