Category: Politics
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Actually Kate, there IS a “they”
I’m not going to be gaslit about drawing hard lines in the aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s assassination I’ve guess been struggling to come to grips with the murder of Charlie Kirk. Obviously there’s the gruesome reality of what happens when a bullet goes through a man’s neck, and I’ve watched those few seconds of footage…
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Red & Blue Christianity pt. 1
Understanding Progressivism and Christian Nationalism I’ve been rereading The Brothers Karamazov. This book changed my life when I read it at seventeen, and returning to its pages in a culture and at a time so different from the one in which I originally encountered them has given me a unique angle for considering the changes…
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On James Lindsay, Liberalism, and “American Realism”
For the past several months, James Lindsay has been on a crusade against something that he is calling the “woke right.” In general, I think that this discourse has produced way more heat than light, and to be truthful, if you follow me on Twitter, I’ve been pretty guilty of a fair amount of that…
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Why I Don’t Believe in Being Civil
Did you want a couple thousand words on why I call people “dipshits”? No? Well, here you go anyway. This essay was originally uploaded on Medium.com under another pseudonym, which was subsequently nuked from the site when I proved to be too effective at dunking on their room-temperature IQ, hive-mind user base. It is reproduced here…
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“I Don’t Really Care, Margaret.”
The Death of the “Politics of Moral Engagement” At the end of his book Justice, after arguing (correctly) that morally neutral government was an impossibility, Harvard philosophy professor Michael Sandel urged liberal America to take up a “politics of moral engagement” and asked if, in a pluralistic society, it was possible to conduct our politics…
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Answers for Ben Cremer about the Olympic Games Opening Ceremonies
Christ-baiting Is a Time-Honored Tradition Well friends, the internet is in a tizzy again. In the last few days since the Olympics opening ceremony, people have been outraged that part of the ceremony involved a scene in which a group of drag queens had been organized so as to resemble Da Vinci’s painting “The Last Supper.”…
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To the Little Black Girl in the Bottom Left-Hand Corner of That Horrifically Cringey Biden Clip
I started this essay some months ago without much idea of how I would end it. I had some idea of what I wanted to say, but there was something missing, and this prevented me from finishing the essay for a long time. But sometimes, the universe seems to rise up and place the answers…
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Why Is Furiosa Bombing at the Box Office?
The latest addition to the Mad Max cinematic universe, Furiosa is currently dying on the rocks of audience indifference and struggling to beat out a cat who hasn’t been relevant for more than twenty years. At the time of this writing, it looks like it is well on its way to failing to even come…
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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Leave Centrism
For the record, I can recall a time when I too enjoyed flaunting my lack of allegiance to either Right or Left, my freedom from “ideologies,” and my commitment to individualism. Don’t hate me, I read “Self-Reliance” at a young age and it made probably more of an impact than it should have. I saw…
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On Bears & Broads: What Are We Meant to Make of the Bear Question Discourse?
So much of our personalities are the accretions of the lessons (good or bad) that we took from our childhoods. In my case, having grown up in a deeply dysfunctional household where one was always walking on eggshells, I developed a belief that things matter, even (and possibly especially) small things. This belief doesn’t always…
The Barking Years 