Sitemap - 2024 - Better Worlds Theory
Exordia and the Pain of Illusory Agency
Remembering to Grieve Our Lost Humanity
An Afrocolombian Education on My Evening Walk
Four Views of Fragile, Fierce Democracies
The Struggle to Report on Violence Well
"We Can Always Tell": The Political Misdirect Underpinning Anti-Queer Policy
Oh, Is It Giving Tuesday Again?
The Desperate Human Fad of Seeing Fads Everywhere
The Mayflower Compact & the (Ir)Regular Renewal of Social Contracts
Sabre-Rattling and Bully Economics
Tech-Future Complicity in Saudi Brutality
Canadian Complicity in Saudi Brutality
The "Silent Majority", and Impoverished Notions of Modern Democracy
Israel's US Election, and How Weaponized News Still Stokes Real Violence and Fear
Oh Boy, Another White Writer Is Going To Try Their Hand at Talking About MLK, Jr.
COP29 and the Benefit of Eco-Nihilism
Competency Porn and The Diplomat S2
"Don't Be A Sucker", Post-Election Redux
A Little Fiction for a Difficult Day
On Pizza and Cannibals; Or, Why This US Election Is So Hard
The Layered Propaganda of Colonel Blimp
Again, Is It Possible to Be "Good"?
Is It Possible to Be "Good" in Our World?
Colombia's Latest Lessons in State-Driven Climate Activism
What an Op-Ed, and Its Aftermath, Teaches Us about War Derangement
On Intellectual Labour, and Its Delusions
A Few Notes on Failed Environmental Policy
Art in a Time of Personal & World Disaster
Lessons from a Weird Hype Cycle around Three Mile Island
The Real Message of "Don't Be A Sucker"
The Myth of Climate Havens Is Bursting
What We Have Done to Our Children
And Now, Another Religion... Baseball!
A Reprieve from Today's Gods, into Ur's
The Real Challenge for Media Literacy: Gutted Local Journalism
The Inoculation Science of Cat Park
Sitting with the Heaviness of the World
The Guardian's Run of Climate Journalism
Who's "In the Room" When We Speak?
Two Ways of Looking at Community
Otto Neurath's Language of Civic Spaces
What Is Democratic Interference?
Common Myths about Human History
The Loaded Language of Price-Fixing
Oh, How Blue-Collar Work Has Changed (in Space)
Is Full Democracy Ever Feasible?
When Humans Narrate for Other Animals
On Diplomacy Games and the Media
Two Takes on the Rise of Pseudo-Banks
The Digital Tech Utopia We Didn't Build--and Maybe Couldn't (Part 2)
On the Abuse of Famous Lines in History
Planetary Food Plans Aren't Quite the Climate Fix We've Been Looking For
The Digital Tech Utopia We Didn't Build--and Maybe Couldn't (Part 1)
Hard, Mediocre Truths about the Far Right
When Speculative Fiction Screws Up
Someone Is Wrong on the Internet
Life Lessons from Four-Part Story Arcs
"This Is a Good Jap": What We Forget about What War Does to Us
Back and Forth in Bangla Politics
What's Really Haunting All Our Secular and Spiritual Lives?
The Missing Lamb: A Short Story
The Long-Term Impact of Gamergate
On the New Military Junta Confederacy
What a Very Good Trek Series Highlights about What's Missing from Our Stories
Holding On to Stories of Ourselves
Lessons from Martin Luther's Antisemitism
Nine Months at War with Our Own Worst Natures
When Legacy Media Gamifies Democracy
The Agony of Living through Jingoism
The US's Forever War around Rule of Law
The Global Problem in Kenya's Tax Protests
Raphael Lemkin on Genocide, and Why States Are Not Good Arbiters of Moral Action
The Real Danger of So-Called AI Has Always Been Environmental
What Two Very Real National Conspiracies Teach Us about Human Mediocrity
The Tenuous Relationship between Conflict and Tech
The Weird Nationalist Misdirect of Tariffs
What Should Good Finance Journalism Do?
Touching Grass in a Big Ol' Hurting World
How Do We Speak of Human Trespass in a World of Relentless Injustice?
When Pan-Nationalism Veers Nationalist
Rewriting Cultural Stories, or Trying To
Unshattering the Tea Cup in Modi's India
Do We Know What Kind of Democracy We're Looking For?
The Policy Wonk President's Big Challenge
What's So Queer about Being Here?
The Trouble with Classifying Nature
The Upside of 50,000 Years of Venereal Disease
The Word Games We Play with Atrocity
What Sort of Justice Can We Expect?
What Kind of Resistance Art Do We Want?
The Trouble with Classifying Nature
O Canada, What's To Be Done about the Fires?
Eating Your Greens: A Food, Inc. 2 Recap
Democracy and the Wartime State
On Future-Hoarding: Climate Change Lessons from Fallout
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