In Reply to Walter Block: Sticking with Democratic Socialism
Essay - “Of course, the question of whether healthcare should be socialized is only a small piece of my general disagreement with [Walter] Block on political economy. Still, it is a vivid enough example to stand in for all the bigger questions.” (12/30/2024)

Our Life-World, Its Enemies, and the Enduring Power of Common Sense
Essay - “Similarly distinct from the regular life-world is the world of academic theory, in which, as in the fantasy world, theoretical constructs are often divorced from any dependency on practical outcomes.” (12/28/2024)

A Three-State Solution to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Essay - “As Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin said on the White House lawn in 1993 during the Oslo Accords, the progenitor initiative of what is required exactly now: ‘Enough of blood and tears. Enough.” (12/23/2024)

Sand, Ash, or Mud: Valerie Witte’s “A Rupture in the Interiors”
Essay - “As for most poets, [Valerie] Witte’s writing is intensely personal, whatever form it may take. No ‘experimental’ poet could be more candid and direct about her intention of ‘examining in a new way’ matters close to her heart.” (12/22/2024)

Vigilantism and the Sex Offender Registry
Op-Ed - “Social media and online articles about these incidents boast ten or even 20 comments praising the vigilante for each one condemning the act of violence.” (12/20/2024)

Rejoinder to Ben Burgis: The Case for Laissez-Faire Capitalism
Essay - “According to that tried and true statement, ‘wealthier is healthier.’ Free enterprise leads to greater wealth and, thus, to greater health and longevity, ceteris paribus.” (12/19/2024)

Start Making Sense: “Say Hello to Metamodernism”
Essay - “Just as [Greg] Dember’s generation inherited modernism and felt a need to rebel, today’s younger generations have inherited postmodernism and no doubt feel the same urge to keep the sense of cultural evolution progressing.” (12/17/2024)

Little Engines of Self: Joy Manesiotis’ “Revoke”
Essay - “It is a remarkable feat of poetics to create epic sense out of the most micro of human materials.” (12/8/2024)

The Case for Democratic Socialism
Essay - “Capitalism has done much to develop the economic machinery of the modern world to the point where all of this is possible. But it is long since time to move past the capitalist phase of our history and institute something better.” (12/7/2024)

On the Trump Coalition
Essay - “The economic situation during the Biden administration eroded and degraded the average American’s ability to participate in the life of the nation as an economically self-sufficient citizen.” (12/6/2024)
