Reflections on MLK Day, 2026
Dr. King's Dream is gone from our politics. But it's still alive in American culture.
Liberal Confessions
Reflections of a disillusioned progressive liberal who's lost faith in the narrative but still believes in democracy.
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Abundance Liberalism: A Spiritual Critique
More clean energy and affordable housing would be great. But humans don't live on technocratic materialism alone
Context Matters
News coverage of a recent ICE raid at an Omaha meatpacking plant exemplifies how both Reds & Blues selectively erase pivotal facts from their narratives
Liberalism in Crisis: Syllabus
Reconsidering American liberalism from the New Deal to the present
From the New Deal to Neoliberalism, Wokeism, & Trumpism: What happened to American liberalism?
Reassessing the past to make sense of our hyper-polarized present
Rethinking American Liberalism
Zooming out from the craziness of current events to consider how we got here and where (at least ideally) we might want to go
Fortress Democrat
Bunkering down into denialism is a dead end strategy
Can Democrats Break Out of Their Box?
For their own mental health & the good of the country, let's hope so
Waiting
Where will we be one and a half weeks from today?
"They're Eating the Cats!"
Memeified demagoguery, the war on the working class, & America's downward spiral
Hive Mind
Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose
Against Zero-Dimensional Culture
Today's algorithm-driven Internet is destroying the multidimensionality of human culture
Authoritarianism, American Style
Stuck watching a rerun, can't change the channel (yet)
Trepidatious Stasis
Watching and waiting, apprehensive yet bored. What happens when the American political dam finally breaks?
From Post-Progress Liberalism to Ecohumanism
Conserving the best of the liberal tradition while transitioning to a new & better alternative
Why I'm No Longer a Progressive
Today's progressivism is no longer part of the liberal left
Introducing "Notes"
ISO a better social media experience
What's Woke? #3: Toxic Femininity & Surveillance Capitalism
The old feminist promise of a new ethic of care has become twisted, technocratic, and increasingly dystopian
Charting a New Direction
Plans for Liberal Confessions, plus a new project, Re/Generate
ICYMI: Updates from Chat
A quick recap plus some new photos