Tag: politics

• Affirmative Action in Gentle Terms (09 Jul 2023), 4900-ish words
  Summary: Explaining to Supreme Court justices and other remedial students
• Fiction — Bank on It (19 Mar 2023), 4100-ish words
  Summary: A short story that may sound familiar
• Fiction — Whatever Happened to Social Media? (13 Nov 2022), 6100-ish words
  Summary: A short story that may sound familiar
• The Chains of Fear (06 Nov 2022), 1400-ish words
  Summary: The fear inherent in trying to look strong
• Fearing Fear Itself (30 Oct 2022), 2700-ish words
  Summary: Fear sells, but at a high price
• The Powder Keg (26 Jun 2022), 2200-ish words
  Summary: Conservatives fail to do the math, every time
• Close Reading of Roe v Wade (15 May 2022), 5500-ish words
  Summary: We need federal abortion laws
• Supporting the Right to Choose (08 May 2022), 4000-ish words
  Summary: Progress on assorted projects
• Twitter Troubles, or the 280-Character Blues (01 May 2022), 3200-ish words
  Summary: What to do with the social media site of record?
• Don't Feed the Invisible Authoritarians (24 Apr 2022), 1700-ish words
  Summary: More media criticism
• Age Cohorts, Ruining Things, and Apocalypses (15 Aug 2021), 3000-ish words
  Summary: The enduring stupidity of age cohorts
• Winning the Twenty-First Century (30 May 2021), 4100-ish words
  Summary: Systems of government that work
• Asian Women in Fiction (21 Mar 2021), 2700-ish words
  Summary: Investigating portrayals of Asian women
• Explaining Gender to the Biased (28 Feb 2021), 1800-ish words
  Summary: Social constructs, genders, and the like
• An Unexpected Case for Reparations (14 Feb 2021), 2300-ish words
  Summary: The laziest case for Reparations
• Loving It and/or Leaving It and What “It” Might Be (15 Nov 2020), 2200-ish words
  Summary: Considering what it means to like something
• Post-Election Reconciliation (08 Nov 2020), 1700-ish words
  Summary: What to expect when we're expecting violence
• Politics in Art and Technology (18 Oct 2020), 1200-ish words
  Summary: The Sargasso Sea of apolitical art?
• Voting as a Communal Activity (11 Oct 2020), 900-ish words
  Summary: We don't vote correctly
• The Fight of the Century (and The Last Century) (06 Sep 2020), 2800-ish words
  Summary: How did we get here and where is here?
• Of Course Political Parties Don't Reflect You! (30 Aug 2020), 1500-ish words
  Summary: Thinking about what democracy means as a practice
• Fiction — Grandfathers, Butterflies, and Patient Minus-One (16 Aug 2020), 1600-ish words
  Summary: Releasing a Short Story
• Re-Imagining Law Enforcement (31 May 2020), 4000-ish words
  Summary: Insufficient thoughts on a critical issue
• On Electability and Complicity (01 Mar 2020), 3100-ish words
  Summary: Who is electable? What makes supporters toxic?