The Heart of the Matter

Recently Amazon Publishing posted a video we did about writing during the pandemic (embedded below). It was a lot of fun and people seem t...

A theory: A year ago, Biden was polling nationally in first place. But a significant amount of his support was coming from people who sup...

Last night I attended a screening of the documentary Eminent Monsters: A Manual for Modern Torture . This is a horrifying account of how va...

Not long ago I wrote a blog post about how the best way to talk about socialism was to not talk about socialism . This Nathan Robinson arti...

Updated Below Why do most discussions of socialism shed so much heat and so little light? Because they’re about socialism! A word that h...

Updated Below In September 2015—over a year before Trump was elected president—Rula Jebreal wrote what I think is still one of the most i...

UPDATED BELOW: Recently I watched Amazon Studios’s The Report , written and directed by Scott Z. Burns. It’s a superb dramatization of ho...

Below is a copy of a letter I sent today to the judge overseeing sentencing for the  Kings Bay Plowshares 7 , a group of activists, severa...

Yesterday I came across this passage from a recent New York Times article on the Japanese love of cherry blossoms: The theme of many ...

And...Livia Lone is back, in ALL THE DEVILS ! A search for a pair of serial rapists leads Livia Lone down the darkest and most dangero...

The question of how much weight to give individual votes vs regional concerns is an important one on which reasonable people can differ. B...

At a party this past Saturday, I got to talking to a couple people about politics. They asked for my recommendations on what they ought to...

If you read my books, you’ve heard of Gavin de Becker, because in my author notes I frequently cite his excellent book The Gift of Fear . ...

Two op-eds in this week’s Economist that are doubly interesting side by side. In one, the magazine claims that “ America is not at war .” T...

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