Youngkin is the not end of Trumpism
He represents a metastatic evolution of Trumpism that reinstitutionalizes a dangerous, backward-looking worldview that will make the transformation that humanity craves (and desperately needs) harder.
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Meta what?
Short (but not hot) take on Facebook’s new name.
Work, exploitation, and wealth
We need a real conversation about the opportunity The Great Pause has given us and why people are working differently.
Diagnosis over direction
What Ezra Klein gets so right and what Democrats are getting so wrong about the nature and future of our country.
When personal choices shouldn't just be personal
How people are validating their non-medical choice not to be vaccinated says volumes about the nature of American culture.
Is water water actually everywhere?
CNN published an exceptional narrative about the looming Colorado River water crisis -- but never asked what might be the most essential question.
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Clarity but not focus
More clarity about what and how you want to engage in the world does not necessarily guarantee the ability to focus your work.
What comes from a month off the grid?
Clarity.
What we need to be free
If we focus on ensuring and investing in everyone's freedom, we might find real freedom the cure to our futurelessnesss.
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The Problem with Truth
In our desperation to makes sense of a complex world, we've damaged the concept of truth so badly we're now prepared to call it dead -- to our great detriment.
A View from the Road
Six weeks on the road across the country is a good way to refresh your view of all kinds of things.
Institutional versus cultural power
Our inability to distinguish, disconnect, and leverage different types of power is not just undermining discourse -- it's risking our republic.