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Items related to culture
May 17, 2026
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7 min read
The long American project of turning a radical into a carpetbagger
May 10, 2026
6 min read
Two AI companies published documents about the future. Neither one asked for your opinion.
Apr 26, 2026
What Schumacher, Ukrainian drones, and your neighborhood credit union all say about how to stay human when everything is going bigly.
Apr 19, 2026
Faith, politics, and the generation growing up thinking this shit is normal.
Apr 12, 2026
11 min read
When every choice is engineered against you, freedom is just a marketing term
Apr 5, 2026
10 min read
How a nation obsessed with individuality outsourced its mind
Mar 22, 2026
Fear, Greed, and the Slow Unmaking of American Citizenship
Mar 1, 2026
Short-Term Thinking Has Set Up the Workplace for Major Disruption
Feb 8, 2026
Violence is a policy, not a destiny
Feb 1, 2026
12 min read
The cost of pretending that other working-class folks are the problem.
Jan 25, 2026
To recover shame, America may first have to admit its president is the joke.
Jan 18, 2026
9 min read
A wounded democracy has to decide whether to heal itself with shared goals or keep chasing after the loudest mouth
Jan 4, 2026
What George Washington knew, Trump Never Understood, and What We Can't Forget
Dec 21, 2025
8 min read
On boredom, friction, and the accidental adventures that build resilience
Nov 30, 2025
Going to the Movies Is A Social Glue, Not A Meme
Nov 23, 2025
How We Mistook Billionaires for Progress and Wealth as Success
Nov 16, 2025
The Promise and Peril of Getting Old in a Changing Nation
Nov 9, 2025
Protecting Human Value in a World Run By Machines
Nov 2, 2025
Defending free speech in the era of a nationalist administration.
Oct 26, 2025
Today's Leaders Are Modeling Wealth At Any Cost
Oct 19, 2025
A lost opportunity in a befuddling self-congratulatory speech.
Oct 12, 2025
Thinking and Acting to Avoid Big Beautiful BS
Oct 5, 2025
Building and keeping great things takes vision and shared responsibility.
Sep 28, 2025
We must avoid being super joiners and group thinkers.
Sep 14, 2025
14 min read
It's not just a free market that keeps us free.
