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Unscattering
A very personal essay // the long view, past and future
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The Kids Are Not Alright
Dispatch from the fringes of Philly's crisis of youth violence
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The White Dead Dawn
A critique of Joan Didion's "wagon-train morality"
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Hazel Motes and The Hunger
Putting Flannery O'Connor and Contrapoints in dialogue
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The Dissociative Pout is Already Dead
All the cool kids are reassociating
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The Life of a Clear Cut
On forests and people and destruction and time
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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
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Everything Matters
Everything Everywhere All at Once and the "crisis of meaning"
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The Three-legged Dog
In the first of the boxy brick rowhomes caddy-corner from my apartment lives a three-legged dog.
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Gen Zero
Coming of age in post-Trump America // Sane rogue intellects against the world // Andrew Callaghan and journalistic integrity in the age of the internet
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The fine line between flagellation and respect
Drinking habits and graveyard diners // God, guilt, and griddle grease
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Air Raids and Applebee's
and doomscrolling under a doomin' sun, and what do we do with all the fear and uncertainty and absurdity and helplessness
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