Archive - Philly Clearing

Philly's Working Class Black Neighborhoods Choose Tough-On-Crime Mayoral Candidate

cherelle parker, a defender of stop-and-frisk policing, swept the majority-black neighborhoods most impacted by gun violence, beating a bernie-backed…

Published on Pirate Wires • May 17, 2023

February 2023

Helen Gym's Union League Gaffe

A problematic cocktail party, "white Philly progressives," and the spectre of anti-Blackness

Feb 1, 2023 •

January 2023

Andrew Callaghan Allegations

Is there no one pure in this world?

Jan 10, 2023 •

They Will Come for Andrew Callaghan

Callaghan has begun to poke the only beast that can stop his rise: a politically connected corporate media hell-bent on self-preservation.

Jan 7, 2023 •

December 2022

A very personal essay // the long view, past and future

Dec 30, 2022 •

November 2022

Dirtbags and Bluenoses

Elephants and donkeys are out. Welcome to the new American divide // Also: smoking an ounce for Stephen Hawking, or, shitposting toward utopia

Nov 19, 2022 •

Book Review: Where I Was From

My losing entry for Freddie deBoer's book review contest // more Didion criticism

Nov 18, 2022 •

October 2022

The White Dead Dawn

A critique of Joan Didion's "wagon-train morality"

Oct 4, 2022 •

September 2022

The Kids Are Not Alright

Dispatch from the fringes of Philly's crisis of youth violence

Sep 21, 2022 •

Coming of age in post-Trump America // Sane rogue intellects against the world // Andrew Callaghan and journalistic integrity in the age of the internet

Sep 14, 2022 •

August 2022

Hazel Motes and The Hunger

Putting Flannery O'Connor and Contrapoints in dialogue

Aug 11, 2022 •

June 2022

Liberalism and Abortion

Roe's demise kicks abortion rights to the halls of state legislatures. Voter attitudes about abortion are now vital. But it's hard to win over hearts…

Jun 24, 2022 •

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