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

Mismanagement and political campaigning have sucked the joy out of an event meant to bring people together

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

Mark Zuckerberg built a future that nobody wanted. Tech bosses are repeating his mistake

Brainstorm - Richard Scolyer

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…

Like Imperial Japan before us, the United States has substituted tactical and operational planning for strategic thinking.

Andy Weir is the New York Times bestselling author of The Martian, Artemis, Project Hail Mary, and Cheshire Crossing.

I work in a sector that speaks out on racism and human rights, yet on this issue I have felt the boundaries of acceptable speech narrow around me

Why did Joan Didion love Barry Goldwater but hate Ronald Reagan? Historian Sam Tanenhaus helps make sense of Didion's conservatism.

The violent response to an attempted murder would have happened regardless of Musk, Lee Hurley writes.

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