"If the Weather Underground failed, we should ask: compared to what?" Emmett Rensin explores the moral reckoning of Zayd Ayers Dohrn’s “Dangerous, Dirty, Violent & Young”: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/dangerous-dirty-violent-young-ayers-dohrn-weather-underground/

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Lurked on X this week to do some reporting. It's stunning how ugly it is there. Saw a Blaze reporter call a Landers' staffer a "fa***t." A Daily Wire reporter wants to abolish mosques. Nearly every reply thread to posts by black or Jewish people quickly descended into raw racism or antiSemitism.

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The metaverse obsession in Silicon Valley coincided with the most urgent years of the pandemic. I wanted to know more about this weird time, so I spent a couple of months on this.

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This Protestant feels confused: On moral authority and the Pope-Trump divide As I have discussed here, I am a proud Protestant. I was raised Lutheran, and am now Episcopalian. While there is some variation among Episcopalians and Anglicans over whether they see themselves as Protestant, both my…

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1000 words is a blog post, not a manifesto.

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