Sitemap - 2024 - Better Worlds Theory
On the Sci-Fi of War, Propaganda, and Nationalism
Wires and Lights in a Box: Media Lessons from Ed Murrow
The Long Game of Restorative Justice
On Shadow Histories and the Myth of Personal Destiny
Building on Culture: The Extinction of "Us"
A Prelude to 'Building on Culture'
The Stories of Judaism Lost to War
Scenes from Our Boring Dystopia
When Even Simple Histories Get It Wrong
Lessons from the Global Nightmares We Can't Address
We Have Always Lived with Fearmongers
How Should We Address Our Medical Illiteracy?
When the Media Makes Context Harder
The Perks and Perils of Writing Solo
The Weaponization of Ancient History
War Propaganda and Notions of Civic Duty
"Mature Content": When a Show Actually Handles Emotion Well
Realpolitik, and Other Highly Emotional Responses to the Brutality of War
We Have Always Lived with Extremism
How We Report on Commodity Futures
On the Conservative Politics Lost to Lunacy
Artificial Intimacy and Everyday Atrocity
Dark Matter and the Latest Science Muddle
Lithium Fields and Water Politics
Scavengers Reign and Our Estranging World
Our World of Normalized Industry Disasters
Dune's Emotional History of the West
Getting to Know the New Extraction Economy
American Fiction and the Stories We Can't Tell
What Are We Looking for in a "Better World"?
Overcoming Wartime Mentalities
On Perfect Days, and Who Gets to Have Them
Of Whales, Women, and Historical Correction
The News Our News Ecosystem Misses
On Penguins, Herzog, and Delusions of Progress
Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes: New Posting Schedule
True Detective, Monsieur Spade, and Our Struggle with the Coziness of Crime
Two Years, Ten Years, Too Many Years
The End of Expertise, The Beginning of...?
Writing as a Means to an End, Not the End Itself
Falling Out Of and Back in Love with the World
The Problem with Expecting Truth from Media
Coriolanus and Coriolanus and Coriolanus
On Mitochondria, Mince Pies, and Patron Saints
What's the Point of a Primary?
Beliefs about the World, in Medias Res