By Lee Vinsel

I'm reposting this essay I wrote in 2021 because the online blogging platform Medium has apparently changed its policies and people are having trouble accessing the original. Hopefully, I'll find a better, more durable solution soon. I'm reposting it unaltered, even though I would unsurprisingly do some

Criticism of public schools is not entirely wrong – but by ignoring unequal conditions, it misdiagnoses the problem and misplaces responsibility.

A list of unheralded improvements to ordinary quality-of-life since the 1990s going beyond computers.

Deciphering Glyph, the blog of Glyph Lefkowitz.

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Brainstorm - Richard Scolyer

The H5N1 virus has now reached every continent on the planet. What does it mean for some of the world’s unique species?

Hey folks! I am working on finishing up some things this week, so I thought I would post the text of the keynote I gave at the Prancing Pony Podcast Moot earlier this December. I've made some minor edits to conform a bit more to the form of a blog post, but this remains very…