The False Promise of a New Purity Test
A few years ago, we couldn’t stop talking about the purity tests the left was supposedly exacting on everyone.
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We Are Not the Help, Part II
What We Built and What Comes Next
We Are Not the Help, Part I
On Not Giving Up on Each Other
Notes on Two and a Half Millenia
What Greece Taught Me about Resilience, Reinvention and the Right to Belong
Growing Up Inside the Archive
Childhood amnesia once promised that early life would fade on its own. What happens when digital memory begins to interrupt the mercy of forgetting?
When Disruption Hits
A note on my new essay for Nonprofit Quarterly
Every Comeback Trained the Next One
How the Knicks turned years of disturbance into a championship identity.
Dispatch: The Theater of Voluntary Surrender
Last week, I wrote about Pope Leo XIV stepping into the global leadership vacuum to confront the predatory rise of “technological feudalism.” That piece was part of a longer argument I’ve been trying to build in public these past few months: that AI is more than a technical story, a business story, or a future-of-work story.
Pope Leo XIV Enters the Fight Against Technological Feudalism
I want to be clear at the outset of this piece: I am not Catholic.
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Still Riding
Checking back in on Anthony Garrett, Richard Zuley, and the unfinished story from the Crying Wolf bonus episodes.