Politics

Eight and a half Heresies

The witless won’t read it. The intelligent don’t need it. This is the sermon your minister never had the guts to preach. If you make it to the end still nodding, congrats. If you finish it screaming? Got ya.

JD Vance

You may think he's better but he's not.

The Gospel of Disengagement

Damn good reasons to leave social media until it reverts to being a benign actor.

Collapse Into Fragility

Governance increasingly serves entrenched private interests. Power still moves, but only in the service of capital.

The Exit Strategy

Trump doesn’t want to govern America. He wants to liquidate it. This was never about patriotism. Not about faith, or freedom, or even power for its own

A Manifesto for Becoming

We are not born to be audience. We are not born to echo lines we did not write. We are not born to kneel before a script carved

Rate-Limiting Virality

Policy Brief: Toward a Less Expoitive Internet Executive Summary This paper proposes a targeted, nonpartisan reform: the imposition of structural constraints on the viral amplification of user reactions,

A Local Response to AI

Preparing for the Coming Wave: A Local Response to AI Displacement The machines are not coming. They’re already here. Across industries and communities, artificial intelligence is rewriting

A Modern Democratic Agenda

An introduction to change where it can make a big difference AND be achievable. Toward a Resilient Democracy Confronting Disinformation, Disengagement, and the Crisis of Civic Trust This

Democracy Is Not an Entry-Level Job

Reimagining Civic Leadership Through Education, Competency, and Deliberation