Deep Down Things in a Time of Panic

Panicked catastrophism will only ensure that our challenged cultures stay brittle and stuck.

Social media desperately requires innovation.

I’ve been cursed to envision peace without ever experiencing it myself.

The cleverness that proliferates in public life today is a nuisance.

Current Issue

Hope Itself

We hear it said a lot these days: white privilege, male privilege, cisgender privilege

Awareness is not the opposite of ignorance. Rather, it’s a stand-in for performative gestures of all kinds.

We used to want to assimilate into the mainstream. Now identity is front and center of what we want the world to know about us.

We might be murderers, and we might not, but isn’t it safer to assume we are and be proven wrong? Maybe not.