Miniver Cheevy

If you are squarely in the target audience for Black Mirror , you have already watched it. If you have not yet jumped in, I have a few r...

I have long kept intellectual and personal company with radical leftists, and in the last several years I have radicalized enough that I...

I thoroughly enjoyed Aaron Sorkin’s film and was dazzled by some of the performances. And I hated the politics of the way it presented t...

There are three broad rival frameworks for economic policy under contemporary capitalism (which also are relevant under most socialist p...

People: Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” is a Jewish song about fucking, doubt, longing, being Jewish, kinky fucking, lust, melancholy, ag...

This is a deep revision of my old Independence Day post. (And I sharpened it up here in 2023.) On this day, arriving in a dire mome...

For perspective, I consider these the most important issues in the world: Ensuring the material sustainability of human civilization...

Mostly from the internet, a bunch of good vocabulary for thinking about how people communicate and work together. Five Geek Social...

From John Cutler: Some things I’ve learned over the years as a Systems (Over)Thinker Take care of yourself. Your brain is worki...

In understanding the US right, one must grapple with Christian Dominionism. Political Research Associates have a good overview of the ...

This post assembles resources explaining who the “neo-reactionary” aka “NRx” folks are. They are one among the far right movements comp...