May 2717 min read
ARE YOU ABETTING, MAN?
Two people are having a conversation over the phone. One is in a typical Singapore apartment complex. Lush green trees are all around....
May 142 min read
SYSTEMIC OR DISCRETE?
For years we were hearing about the replication crisis in the world of psychology; how so much accepted work in the field had never been...
May 87 min read
TRINITY
I haven’t written anything about the encampments, the ones that have sprung up seemingly over night, like springtime mushrooms, on the...
Nov 7, 202311 min read
“CERTAIN IDEAS ARE SO ABSURD...”
Those conformists (sometimes known as “academics”) who provide all the cultural, intellectual, and linguistic justifications for murder —...
Nov 2, 20238 min read
BY THESE TERMS
“Not every German who bought a copy of Mein Kampf necessarily read it … But it might be argued that had more non-Nazi Germans read it...
Sep 19, 20233 min read
IT'S NOTHING LIKE THE RED SCARE
During the Red Scare and adjacent insanity , that terrible decade of right-wing propaganda, paranoia, and political persecution born of...
Aug 18, 20234 min read
FLAME ON
I always like to recount Suzuki's story about smog. How when shooting an episode of The Nature of Things he and his crew went and sat at...
Aug 12, 20233 min read
(THE COMPLETELY FICTIONAL) CONTEXT FOR A STORY
The hawi derived all their power and influence from inherited privileges. Those privileges largely took the form of ownership of key...
Apr 2, 20236 min read
UBER TEACHER
Letter to Blair Épinal, Lorraine, France : ...I’m sure I told you about this outdoor education program I was hired on for. I don’t think...
Dec 28, 20223 min read
YOUTH SUICIDES PLUMMET WITH SCHOOL CLOSURES
There's a Vancouver MD named Tyler Black who I've been following for some time. He's an emergency psychiatrist who studies suicide in...
