Notes from the Circus

Notes from the Circus

September 2026

Lost Friendships and The Cost of Understanding
To the Silicon Valley employee who made peace with Trump
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The Press Was Too Charitable
On the respectable conservatism we were asked to keep looking for
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The Gorilla Is Not an Argument
On the leap from better software to a successor species
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It is Always Darkest Before the Dawn
On discovering there is more of us than them
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Neither Side of the Stage
On the questions the God debate leaves out
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Complete the Way a Crossword Is Complete
On the questions physics cannot be asked
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An Argument in Three Costumes
On what my metaphysical position actually is
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The Bottom Falls Out
The polls have caught up to the prophecy. Thirty-nine days remain.
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The Emperors of Dirt
On watching tonight's banquet the way the desert will watch it
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Nobody Left to Talk To
Pluribus, the return to Eden, and the freedom to remain someone
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A Losing Putin Is Still a Dangerous Putin
Revisiting "What Time Is It?" as Russia threatens Europe and America makes its promises conditional
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