Recent Writing: Nihilism, Paranoia, and the Heroism of Democracy

Over the past few months, I’ve written several stories and essay.

Chasing the Rainbow Coalition: An examination of Jesse Jackson’s groundbreaking support for LGBTQ people during this presidential campaigns of the 1980s, for the Progressive Magazine.

Bruce Springsteen and American Liberalism: A celebration of Springsteen’s big-hearted liberalism of universality, as opposed to the fascist right and too often parochial left, for UnHerd.

How Francis Fukuyama and ‘The Big Lebowski’ Explain Trump’s Victory: An analysis of American nihilism, and the electoral triumph of fascism, for the Washington Monthly.

The Dangers of Blue Collar Populism: A lengthy examination of how the bipartisan coalescence around, what I call, “blue collar populism,” is foolish and dangerous, for Liberties.

Why Progressives Should Talk to their Enemies: A revisitation of Jesse Jackson’s 1977 “debate” with (more like Jackson’s demolition of…) David Duke, for UnHerd.

Techno-Authoritarianism and CyberPunk: A review of the film 2073, for CrimeReads.

The Exurban Dream vs. The American Dream: An examination of how Donald Trump’s most fervent and loyal base of voters in exurbia threatens American democracy, for the Washington Monthly.