Weekend Edition: Our Private Public Sphere
What the Twitter upheaval might teach us about private public goods.
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Weekend Edition: A little bit, right now, everywhere, every day
The 2022-ness of what we're living through started well before this cycle, and we need to embrace both a longer horizon and new everyday, always-on approach to our civic life to find a new path.
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How much media is a lot of media?
Ever-present political ads this time of year feel omnipresent and unavoidable, but are they really that dominant of a cultural force?
Weekend Edition: What did you do on your summer vacation?
A COVID short story that might tell us something about how we might think differently about managing this phase of the pandemic.
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Back from the wilderness
The value of time away and the constant challenge (and opportunity) of attention.
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Weekend Edition: Containers, Conditions, and Content
I'm heading off the grid for the next month and will leave you with an open-ended set of thoughts about what I'm looking for and what we might need.
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Celebrate freedom
Look with humility and graciousness to Black leaders and Black voices to understand and engage in the conversations and reckonings necessary to celebrate Juneteenth.
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Is the EPA meant to confront climate change or not?
When the Supreme Court extends beyond its own expansive reach, not only are the basic functions of government in jeopardy but so is our system of checks and balances.
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Learning while doing during the primaries
Is San Francisco's recall of their progressive district attorney revealing something important about the state of liberalism?
Weekend Edition: They cannot be shamed
History, culture, suffering, and how we might begin to find our way to a safer, freer future.
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What do we mean when we say "democracy"?
Examining where, how, and for whom democracy shows up in culture can point us toward where and how we need to engage new conversations about reclaiming our democracy.
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Weekend Edition: Performance, not perfection, might be the enemy of the good
The failure of our leaders to understand their roles and govern is making us less safe and less free.