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My favorite Substack right now is Gurwinder Bhogal's The Prism. I linked to a few recent pieces from it here already, but in case you missed those or want to revisit them, here they are again: Why Smart People Believe Stupid Things Intelligence is not rationality
Mar 20
No Country for Old Men
Back when I was still teaching English online, my wife one day recorded a short video of me playing a conversation game with one of my students. The question that came up while she was recording was "What's your favorite movie?" Assuming you're not some kind of a weirdo who…
Mar 18
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I Have No Enemies
I haven't been able to get The Avett Brothers' “No Hard Feelings” very far out of my head since watching Rick Rubin listen to it on a podcast in April. But I don't particularly want to get it out of my head either. So I'm going to explore that song and its lyrics and the places…
Jun 17, 2022
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I Didn't Say That #26
Good grief, friends. The words “woke” and “wokeness” came up in the news and across the Substacks that I read more over the past week than in any other week that I can recall. Pro-woke, anti-woke, bank-woke—what the fuck? As I mentioned the other day—when I, too,
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An Addendum to 'Wokeness in 2023'
In the piece I published about wokeness over the weekend, I wrote that "the percentage of times I’ve published writing and not wanted to add or change…
Mar 14
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Wokeness in 2023
I’ve been a vocal critic of “wokeness” for long enough now to have watched it and its “anti-woke” opposition evolve and get worse over a period of…
Mar 12
Going All In
As a few of you will know, I’ve been doing some soul-searching, trying to figure out whether or not it’s in anyone’s interest but my own to keep writing…
Mar 11
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I Didn't Say That #25
Searching for character in identity, two sides of illiberalism, and more
Mar 11
I Didn't Say That #24
Things worth remembering, the excesses of "wokeness," and more
Mar 4
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I Didn't Say That #23
Why smart people believe stupid things, and more
Feb 18
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Every time I see the videos that people make of themselves doing things, I get sad. The latest one I saw was a compilation of a bunch of people who'd…
Feb 14
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Ghost Stories #6: Paris, Texas
After pulling up the video of my favorite scene from Paris, Texas for my last post, the algorithm steered me to this video essay exploring some of the…
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Meditations on life in a mind and society
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