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What About The Children?
The First Generation of Parents Who Knew What We Were Doing—and Did It Anyway
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A Clarifying Note on "The Performance of Power"
When I write about democracy's rubble phase, I should clarify what I mean.
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The Performance of Power
American soldiers kneel on cold tarmac, smoothing wrinkles from a blood-red carpet.
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Liberalism Might Need Some Populism
From Managing the People to Governing with Them
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Lost Together
I want you to think about where you are right now.
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The Truth About Expertise Or: Why Everyone Claiming to Know How to Run Civilization Is Full of Shit
A Meditation on Collective Ignorance, Emergent Complexity, and the Sound of Children Who Know They Don’t Know
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A Note on "Trump Derangement Syndrome"
A Brief Meditation of Moral Witness
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Impact
A Meditation on Our Collapse
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Democracy Needs Art
Where the Attention Wars Can Be Won
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The Emperor’s Nuclear Circus
The emperor has no clothes, but he does have nuclear codes.
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The Faux Intellectuals of Silicon Valley
Oligarchs, Courtiers, and the Corruption of Thought
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The Coalition of the Willing to Lose
Why Democratic Survival Depends on Good Faith
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