A gentle corrective to all the takes
It's the culture for me.
Gabriel Stein
The Metamodern Miasma
The decline of cultural postmodernism explains the rise of global far-right populism better than any pundit.
Las Vegas
An unhinged rant about the only God humanity has ever created.
Polling
A scientific case for being cautiously optimistic about 2024 (and yes, we still need to work hard af)
Congestion Pricing
What I would say to the MTA
Retirement
A quick hit of late capitalist angst involving Amazon, Larry Fink, and a single-serving cup of Cheerios.
Promises tracker 1
How to read Elon's threat to take his Tesla vaporware elsewhere.
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Back on the rails
Can the environmental movement — and our collective imagination — be rewilded?
Shock and awe
The same absurd Big Promise is driving AI and crypto to the same corrupt ends