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What's the Use of a Year-End Review?

What's the Use of an Essay?

The Extraordinary Work of Seeking Peace

Serial Killers, Hitmen, and the Myth of Elevated Killing

Monthly Media Roundup: On Propaganda

Building the Community We Want to See

On Slow Horses and Long Recovery Arcs

On Foxes, Henhouses, and the Fog of War

Wag the Dog, and Media Lessons Never Learned

If Your Art Isn't Broken, It Isn't of Our World

What Utopia Excludes

On zero-sum versus positive-sum thinking

Monthly Reading and Viewing Roundup

On Late-Stage Nationalism

Losing Our Humanity in War

Academic Writing in a Wounded World

Reckoning with What We Create

There Will Come Soft Rains

Of Gringos and Gentle Travellers

The Great Big International Law Market

Will We Ever Be Ready To Think Globally?

Monthly Reading and Viewing Roundup

Walkabout; Or, When the World Is Too Much

What We Take for Granted about Global Finance

On Westphalian Myth, and Its Mythmakers

On Petronationalism: Rethinking Nationhood

The Other Global Victims of Media Scams

Grief Work at the End of a Media Era

What Multidimensional Poverty Takes from Us

Nigerien Trauma, Nigerian Lit, & National Lies

The Struggle to Think Globally

How to Choose the Right Focus for Discourse

The Deeper Financial Grift Behind AI Panic

Why Are We Talking About This, Again?

Making All Our Nowhere Plans for Nobody

"Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own?"

The Actual Bad Place for Contemporary SFF

On Mill, McLuhan, and Social Media

Will Literary Communities Save Us?

On writing about war and nationalism, amid war and nationalism: A Colombian news primer

Lessons from the Vending Life: Outside Churches, and in Western Publishing

Thinking about "AI" labour theft through normalized theft in journalism and teaching

On Lucian, Irenaeus, and Extraordinary Changes to Our Literary Conversations

On Artists, Artisans, Art, & AI

Write What You Want to Know: Building Cultures of Curiosity in Lit

Self-Publishing Shoptalk: Costs, Payout, and Keeping Expectations Low

History, literature, and pluralist society: The quest for better justice within our petty world

Three Slices of the Writing World This Week

In Search of a Better Way to Write the World

Diving in to Substack Notes

The Grand Inquisitor, and How We Manage Our Insufficiency

On John Wick 4, the Spectacle of Violence, and the Violence of Spectacle

The Map Is Not the Territory: An Author Profile at the End of the Publishing World

Death, Life, and the Framing Power of Philosophical Fiction

The Wonder of Survival, and Its Stories

Who Is Served by the Idea of Peaceful Protest?

Crabs in a Bucket: Reframing the Problem in a World That Keeps Pulling Us Down

Neoliberalism, Neofascism, and Other Narratives of Book Censorship

On Empathy, Burnout, & Perspective Shift

The Zombie Test, and Showing Up for Real Need

Humanly Ever After: Life Is No Fairy Tale

Fifth Business, and Other People on the Sidelines

Writing the Soviet Union as a Settler Canadian: Influences for Then Raise the Dead Man High

On Gaming, Passion, and the Constant Need for New Beginnings