I've gone back and forth about whether to publish this, but it feels frivolous to publish anything else right now and disingenuous to publish something more optimistic.
A Response to That Harper’s Letter
On July 7, 2020, Harper's Magazine published an anonymous letter titled, "A Letter on Justice and Open Debate."
Same Day, Different Day
These days the days bleed together not along with but into the weekends
Abolish the Police: A Journey
What follows is a (by no means comprehensive) collection of accessible online sources related to police abolition.
Let’s All Agree That Everything Sucks
With the increase in unemployment benefits, some people have expressed their frustration that they're earning less from going to work (and potentially exposing themselves to the virus) than people who are unemployed.
Year in Review 2019: Podcasts
In a year generally seen as terrible, Green gives his first 5-star review. If that's not optimism I don't know what is.
Year in Review 2019: Movies
Guava Island is a beautifully simple short film and a 50-minute long music video.
Year in Review 2019: YouTube
I tend to relate to most of Yilmaz's work, but his "Stuck" miniseries really struck home with me.
On the Face Of It: The Design of Money
The fact that pieces of paper have power isn't what bothers me about money. I can understand pieces of paper having power; a lot of power resides in language, and paper is a common vessel for language (not to mention art, though the two are not, I think, unrelated, especially in this context). But U.S. bills are just weird.
Certain of Eventual Failure 