An expert explains how the U.S. built a corrupt new petrostate in Iraq through the war.
Against canonizing literal military propaganda.
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January 2023

On the formation of a pipeline that drives leftists toward the authoritarian right.
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December 2022

Two ways of reading Sam Bankman-Fried — both are damning.
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August 2022

An energetic atheism can tackle the twin crises of creeping theocracy and the death of conventional religion.
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June 2022

And what would sentient AI actually look like?
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April 2022

Reducing everything to the optics of problematic affiliation is short-sighted.

March 2022

Self-sanitizing propaganda distorts reality and makes war more likely.
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Meaningful dissent necessarily entails confrontation and discomfort — and possible isolation.
The U.S. refused to reconsider Ukraine's NATO status as Putin threatened war. Experts say that was a huge mistake.
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February 2022

REI is trying to quash a union by slyly weaponizing its diversity, equity and inclusion program.

January 2022

Reporting on shock therapy; what I'm reading.
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