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LXXVIII. A Duty to Dissent

Truth be told, there's not much required to be a public citizen, both a feature and a weakness.

May 11, 2025

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13 min read

Personal Leadership

LXXVII. Do We Really Need to Be Told?

There's a reason we grow up with both idioms and idiots.

May 4, 2025

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15 min read

Personal Leadership

LXXIV. Voices, Votes, or Violence: The Three Features of Democracy

The First Two Are A Must. The Third Is A Choice

Apr 13, 2025

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14 min read

Personal Leadership

LXXI. Dying to Be Remembered

The Shadow of Mortality Shapes Our Decisions Much More Than We Think

Mar 23, 2025

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15 min read

Personal Leadership

LXVII. The Pigs Are Flying

When Job Cuts Make America Great Again, and Everything Else That Matters in an Alternative Reality!

Feb 23, 2025

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16 min read

Personal Leadership

LXVI. The Gospel of Trump

The Cheapening of the Soul in the Age of Profit

Feb 16, 2025

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21 min read

Personal Leadership

LXV. MAGA is FART

Frequently Abandoning Rational Thinking

Feb 9, 2025

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19 min read

Personal Leadership

LXIV. Your Wallet, Your Weapon

How Consumer Choices Can Challenge Power and Drive Change

Feb 2, 2025

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16 min read

Personal Leadership

LXIII. You Have the Power

Be patient, but don't be complacent.

Jan 26, 2025

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20 min read

Personal Leadership

LXII. The Social Contract We Need

But Not the One We'll Get, Without A Push

Jan 19, 2025

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19 min read

Personal Leadership

Culture

CXXX . The Smartest People in the Room Are Discussing America of Tomorrow

Two AI companies published documents about the future. Neither one asked for your opinion.

May 10, 2026

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6 min read

Contemplation

CXXIX. The Last Words

They don't just come at the end.

May 3, 2026

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7 min read

Culture

CXXVIII. Small Is Beautiful in the Age of AI

What Schumacher, Ukrainian drones, and your neighborhood credit union all say about how to stay human when everything is going bigly.

Apr 26, 2026

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6 min read

Culture

CXXVII. The Gospel of Hypocrisy

Faith, politics, and the generation growing up thinking this shit is normal.

Apr 19, 2026

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6 min read

Culture

CXXVI. The Usury of Everything

When every choice is engineered against you, freedom is just a marketing term

Apr 12, 2026

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11 min read

CXXIV. The Juvenile Republic

The reckoning is coming. The question is whether enough of us have the patience to get there.

Mar 29, 2026

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11 min read

Contemplation

CXXIII. We Stopped Building Citizens

Fear, Greed, and the Slow Unmaking of American Citizenship

Mar 22, 2026

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11 min read

Culture

CXXII. The Spark That Could Set Things Off

Things Are Primed to Pop

Mar 15, 2026

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9 min read

Foreign Policy

CXXI. 175 Daughters

The Real Cost of the Lack of Critical Thinking

Mar 8, 2026

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9 min read

Foreign Policy

CXX. The Disposable Economy in the Age of AI

Short-Term Thinking Has Set Up the Workplace for Major Disruption

Mar 1, 2026

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11 min read

Culture

CXIX. A Stone From Normandy: Why America Must Reclaim the High Ground it Abandoned

Trump Is Cashing Out the Moral Capital Others Died For

Feb 22, 2026

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10 min read

Foreign Policy

CXVIII. The Weaponization of Chaos: America's 2026 Crossroads

Why the midterms will determine whether facts, votes, and justice still matter

Feb 15, 2026

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10 min read

Public Policy

CXVII. History Under the Gun

Violence is a policy, not a destiny

Feb 8, 2026

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10 min read

Parenting

CXVI. The White Problem in America

The cost of pretending that other working-class folks are the problem.

Feb 1, 2026

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12 min read

Culture

CXV. America Without A Face

To recover shame, America may first have to admit its president is the joke.

Jan 25, 2026

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12 min read

Culture

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