Plagiarism in the Age of AI Chat Bots
A recent headline fretted “Nobody is prepared for how AI will transform academia.” Fuck that. I’m ready.
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Election Day?
I’m living out the worst song The Clash ever recorded. Once upon a time, however, there was no confusion.
Queen Me
Yesterday, when the National Football League began their games with a moment of silence for the queen, I laughed out loud.
The Center is the Enemy of the Good
American democracy hangs in the balance while dogmatic centrists complain about extremism on “both sides.”
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Postcards from America
A triangle across America, 5,000 miles in 22 nights.
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The King Of Pop, The Emperor’s New Clothes, and Modern Propaganda
How crazy make believe undermines democracy by eroding our faith in government.
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Why Today’s Republicans Hate the New York Times So Very Very Much
Politically and economically, the New York Times is basically the same paper I remembered, more or less occupying the same political space it had at least since the 1980s. But one element has noticeably changed: its elitism.
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What Will We Make Of A Stolen Election?
The U.S. has a long history of electoral corruption. But the last half-century has seen mostly clean elections. Are we about to return to the bad old days?
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Modern American Extremism: A Brief History
If even the Mormon Church can’t convince more than a third of its loyal followers to get the vaccine or mask up, you no something bigger is going on.
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The Millions of Christs of America
You don’t have to be mentally ill to believe most whack-a-doo conspiracy theories. The internet can spread them like an infection, and the American corpus is in danger of losing some limbs.
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