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The Pirate Wires newsletter tends to summarize and riff on current events, whereas podcast episodes and longer-form essays deep dive into fringe, uncomfortable, or otherwise strange topics I find interesting. In the broadest sense, I like to focus on
On a given night, you’ll find me teaching a beginning meditation class at the Zen temple where I live, fighting Kendo, serving tea, doing ceramics or with my face illuminated by a computer screen...
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John Stoehr started The Editorial Board on a whim. It has since grown to become a pretty good place for normal people to figure what the hell’s going on in politics.
I’ll be covering the play by play of the current pandemic-induced global depression and how policymakers should respond to it as well as assessing how they actually are responding. My focus here will be monetary analysis, which is not the same thing
What is a good life? A good life is a comprehensive endeavor. It’s the slow business of understanding the systems we live in and how they affect us. It’s learning about ourselves, our parents, and our children. It’s welcoming change and...
Original research and fresh insight into the political news that matters most. You are not a spectator and democracy is not a game. But so much of what is written about politics treats you that way. That’s why I created Popular Information. It is...
The world is in a bit of a jam. Catastrophic climate change, economic inequality, the robot uprising, and the digital corruption of the public square are the four apocalyptic horsemen galloping towards us, and...
Hello internet, and all the ships at sea! My name is Alexandra Erin. I wear a lot of different hats, and also separately from that I perform a lot of roles. I’m an author, a commentator on news and culture, a poet, an enthusiast for wearable...