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Why You’re Scared and Why It’s Not A Personal Failing

24 Oct 202525 Nov 2025
Several years ago, before the pandemic, the Institute for Precarious Consciousness released a zine: "We Are All Very Anxious." The thesis of the zine was that capitalism generally has a…
Poetry…

Rommel Drives on Deep Into Egypt: A Review

29 Mar 202529 Mar 2025
“Men are walking on the moon today,planting their footsteps as if they werezucchini on a dead worldwhile over 3,000,000 people starve to deathevery year on a living one.EarthJuly 20, 1969”Brautigan…
history…

A Common Mailman: A Review of “Eichmann in Jerusalem’

28 May 202428 May 2024
"The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly…
Teaching…

Generative AI in the Classroom

13 May 2024
From personal observation, I'd say that roughly 15-25% of my students this semester used AI to complete most or all of an assignment. By casually skimming, I can usually tell…
fiction…

Arrive at the Silence of Yourself: Reading Brautigan

5 Nov 20235 Nov 2023
"The light pours itself through a small hole in the sky. I’m not very happy, but I can see how things are faraway."After he committed suicide by gunshot, it was…
activism…

This Unhappy Consciousness

4 Aug 2023
Recently, I was the recipient of a "40 Under 40" award in my community. 40 Under 40 is a feature of many mid-size cities across the United States, and is…
Memoir…

Net

10 Sep 20208 Apr 2025
In adolescence, I was fortunate enough to live on a small barrier island off the Cape Fear coast. During the summers, I spent hours mastering the use of a casting…
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