Politics Collection

A 19th-century pastoral painting depicting a rural farmyard scene. In the foreground, a young child sits with a dog on the grass near a stream. Several cattle in various colours, black and white, brown, and cream, scattered throughout the scene, some standing and others lying down in the grass. A light-colored horse stands to the left under a large tree. The landscape features a verdant meadow with scattered trees, a small farm building visible in the distance, and grazing figures on the far horizon. A cloudy sky overlooks the tranquil countryside setting.

An Open Letter to Compassionate, Left-leaning, AI-hating, Animal-loving Meat Eaters

June 23, 2026

Brace yourself. I'm writing this to people who care about the world's suffering and love animals, but haven't yet extended that same compassion to the animals on their plate. Any environmental argument you can make against generative AI you can make more so against eating meat. This isn't a purity test or a scolding. Just an invitation to not look away.

A composite image juxtaposing a pastoral English countryside scene with a semi-transparent, glitch-filtered television news graphic. In the foreground, a flock of sheep and lambs graze on green grass near a large bare oak tree at golden hour. Behind them, overlaid with a CRT scan-line effect and chromatic aberration, is a Fox 13 Seattle news segment titled 'American Scientists Mysteriously Disappeared or Dead', a two-row timeline displaying photos, names, dates, and 'Deceased' or 'Missing' designations for twelve scientists, spanning July 2023 through February 2026.

PATTERN RECOGNITION

May 5, 2026

Scientists working in classified American aerospace and nuclear research have died and disappeared. The story has migrated from UFO forums to the White House briefing room. A conspiracy requires a conspirator. On grief, and the brain's furious, irrepressible need for meaning. Nuno Loureiro wanted to trap a small star. Carl Grillmair watched stellar streams from a self-built desert observatory. Monica Reza invented an alloy that does not burn. This is not me trying to figure anything out, this is me trying to remember the human beings.

Deeds, Not Words: The Myth of Polite Revolution

April 26, 2026

A refusal of the sanitized story that rights were won by asking nicely. The suffragettes bombed Westminster Abbey. The Deacons for Defense guarded MLK. Mandela was on the U.S. terror list until 2008. On the radical flank effect, the state's monopoly on legitimate violence, and the 46 people who have died in ICE detention while we are told to keep our resistance polite.

A hand-coloured mezzotint depicting a scene set in a moonlit forest. At centre, a fair-skinned woman with auburn hair, a laurel crown, and a star-spangled pink gown, gazes adoringly at a man who sits beside her with the head of a donkey, eyes closed, crowned with pink roses and dressed in a rust-red jacket. The woman holds a rose toward him. Behind them, a small winged fairy peers out from the foliage. In the foreground, a naked figure stands with his back to the viewer, watching the scene. To the right, two winged fairies ride atop a pair of white rabbits, while a third fairy floats upward in the upper right. Pink roses are scattered across the moss-covered ground.

Right-wing Conservatives Cannot Make Good Art

April 21, 2026

Why does reactionary, conservative art in modernity fail? A look at God's Not Dead, the Daily Wire's $100 million entertainment collapse, and how resentment produces derivative, hollow work that cannot generate any cultural magnetism.

Twelve children of varying ages stand at and behind a large iron gate set in sandy ground. Most are smiling broadly and raising their hands toward the camera. Several wear white traditional robes and sandals. The background shows a flat, dusty landscape under a hazy blue sky

Behind Glass

April 4, 2026

A few minutes before I begin writing this, I woke up into an anxiety attack. There are a lot of issues I could be writing about, the world is fraught with uncertain violence. This is a story about me, and also a story about North Darfur and Kansas and Haiti and India. I ask this: whose suffering gets reported? Whose death counts behind glass?

Oil painting depicting the interior of a giant cylindrical O'Neill 'Model 3' space colony habitat, viewed from within. The curved interior wraps around the viewer in a panoramic arc, with rust-orange and amber cumulus clouds massing near the central rotation axis overhead. A dark, star-scattered corridor runs through the middle of the composition, framing a brilliant solar eclipse where the colony has entered Earth's shadow at the L5 Lagrangian point. The entire scene is drenched in deep ruddy amber and burnt sienna tones, evoking the simultaneous light of every sunrise and sunset on Earth.

The Internet's Landlord Problem

April 3, 2026

A quarter of the entire Internet uses Cloudflare. This is an existential threat to the Internet's ideals. I realized I need DDoS protection, but I could not use Cloudflare in good conscience. And so, I'm beyond excited to announce that I'm now using Deflect.ca for my website.

A dramatic expressionist oil painting depicting a figure with long, wildly flowing auburn and flame-orange hair that bleeds into the surrounding darkness. The figure's face is rendered in sickly yellow-green and white highlights, with an intense, brooding downward gaze. One eye caught in shadow, the other luminous. The chest and throat glow as if lit from within by fire. Dark, massive wing-like forms sweep across both sides of the composition, merging with a deep blue-black background. The overall palette contrasts volcanic oranges and golds against cool dark blues and greens, evoking a fallen or defiant supernatural being.

Incels Won the Culture War

March 30, 2026

Looksmaxxing. Redpilled. Sigma. Mogging. Cope. Seethe. Malding. Goyslop. Gooning. Memes from image boards became cultural foundation for Generation Alpha. How rich, powerful men have coordinated a harmful online culture for nearly twenty years.

A Baroque-style allegorical ceiling painting depicting classical female figures representing virtues or goddesses, including one crowned figure in pink robes and one in blue holding a quill and documents, seated on clouds surrounded by cherubs. Additional allegorical figures appear in the lower register, one holding an olive branch with a molecular diagram drawn on her chest, another carrying a shield and spear. Scattered legal documents float in the lower right corner. Overlaid across the entire composition is aggressive graffiti tagging in black and deep red, with a graffiti rendering of the scales of justice at the top center.

A More Perfect Morality: The Progressive Failure of Ethics

March 14, 2026

Liberal democracies selectively apply universal human rights, and there is a progressive failure to extend moral consideration to: Palestinians, Congolese, Rohingyans, Uyghurs, trans people, women, Black communities, Indigenous Peoples, the chronically ill, mentally ill, poor, sex workers, the disabled, the houseless, children, elderly, Jewish people, immigrants, gender/sexual/romantic minorities, incarcerated people, Romani and Dalits, and animals. True universal rights require principled solidarity beyond tribal boundaries.

A series of feminist murals painted on a long outdoor wall in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. The foreground mural on a pink background depicts a illustrated woman with a red braid wearing a beret bearing the Venus/female symbol, beside the text 'Women Rise Up!' in bold red lettering within a blue circle. Behind it, a pink panel reads 'Get Your Laws Off My Body' in white text. Further along the wall, a blue panel features a group illustration of diverse women. The wall runs alongside a brick-paved walkway, with trees visible in the background.

We As Men Must Do More, and We Must Do Better

March 9, 2026

An open letter to the men in my life and around the world, pleading that we recognize there is so much work for us to do. A recognition of my own shortcomings and failures. Steps we can take to try to liberate the future.

The Big Arch Distraction (while the World is Burning)

March 5, 2026

A CEO took a comically small bite of a burger. The internet erupted. Meanwhile, the US is bombing Iran, Trump is drafting executive orders to seize control of the midterms, and civil unrest is reaching a boiling point. We need to talk about what we're choosing to look at.

A dark pit with a waterfall cascading down steep moss-covered cliff walls, viewed from below, with mist rising through the narrow canyon opening to a cloudy sky above

Our Shared Oblivion

February 10, 2026

How the inevitability of oblivion can be a source of relief, while also examining our sacred duty to make things better in the present moment through persistent, stubborn action in the direction of care.

Busy vintage newsroom with journalists working at long wooden tables under industrial pendant lights. Men in white shirts and ties review papers and documents in a high-ceilinged space with exposed ductwork and black metal framework. The industrial-style office has a mid-20th century aesthetic with workers engaged in various reporting and editing tasks.

Substack's Subpar Subculture

February 5, 2026

The newsletter platform is supposed to be the new economic engine for culture. Yet, they let hate speech fester. Why? The answer is obvious. Writing is treated as commodity instead of sacred art. But there is a solution.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon travelled to Greenland to see first-hand the impacts of climate change. Together with the Prime Ministers of Denmark and Greenland, he visited the town of Uummannaq, where they hoisted flags, observed a prayer ceremony in a local church, went dog sledding; and met with indigenous people

Greenland Belongs to the Inuit

January 11, 2026

The Greenland debate keeps asking whether the U.S. could take it, or whether Denmark should keep it. The missing question is: What do the Greenlanders want? They’ve already answered: 'We don’t want to be Americans. We don’t want to be Danes. We want to be Greenlanders.' This is about Indigenous sovereignty and the quiet billionaire scramble for Greenland’s resources.

A crowd of protesters gathered at dusk holding signs and waving transgender pride and rainbow flags. Visible signs read 'LOVE TRUMPS HATE,' 'TRANS RIGHTS,' 'SAD!,' and 'NO HATE.' Bare trees and illuminated street lights frame the scene against a blue evening sky, with buildings visible in the background.

How Can We Use the Internet for Good?

January 4, 2026

A manifesto on what we do when the world is on fire: Daywriting. The deliberate, daily documentation of ordinary existence as both personal archive and political resistance.