Why make things?

I couldn’t afford a nice bookshelf, and I couldn’t bring myself to buy a cheap one. So I headed to the hardware store.

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Politics

The apology deficit

Ours is an era of cultivated transgressiveness, in which leaders vice signal their lack of interest in apologizing when they’re wrong.

The case for being a killjoy

We may be reluctant to say anything that sounds puritanical. But our private morality really does matter.

The politics of performance

In the Trump era, the narrative around legislative efforts seems to matter a lot more than the actual results.

A sanctuary for banned stories

When truth is being cast as lies, the sacred work of storytelling is urgent.