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Speaking is acting
We’ve made a faulty conclusion: that speaking isn’t acting. We couldn’t be more wrong.
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When our need to protect the powerful actually preserves division
We treat our divisions like conundrums: unsolvable and eternal. They’re neither. We just need to take their depth more seriously.
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Seduced by Inequality
It’s important to have empathy, but humanizing the devil doesn’t change his plans.
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How our present moment is like a dysfunctional family system
In the years running up to the Civil War, Congress was acting like a dysfunctional family system. Here’s why knowing that matters.
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Confederate Monuments aren’t people
We talk about confederate monuments as if they aren’t symbols of anxiety, racism, and a legacy of hate. I shouldn’t have to say it. It’s pretty evident. But we’re at a time in which truths are intentionally obscured. And this is one of those statements which is both literally and metaphorically true. Confederate monuments and…
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The delicate disposition of the white southern man
After Rusty had killed the man (He shot him in the back) he needed to reshape the evidence. That man–he came at me! This, of course, was hogwash But the shots were justified (All 12 of them to the back) self-defense is such an easy excuse – he came at me! – he would claim…
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When evolution begins and our Civil War ends
There is something fitting that this date in history would be momentous. That August 20th would, in 1858 usher in the modern world and eight years later close our bloodiest chapter. Charles Darwin’s The Origin of the Species was published 156 years ago today. The work is credited, as we know, with the birth and…