The speed with which the COVID-19 pandemic has completely upended and shut down ordinary life in America is both stunning and terrifying.
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45 to Stop 45: an Idea to Ignite Mass, Nonviolent Protests
February 16, 2020
Trump now thinks he is a king, acts like a king, and is deferred to by the Republican Party as though he were a king
Capital Good Fund Turns 11 – And I’m 35!
February 12, 2020
Celebrating the birthday of a nonprofit you founded doesn’t have the same nostalgia-soaked feeling as your own birthday: rather than the bittersweet recollections of childhood, this celebration has the bracing feel of adulthood.
Undemocratic Meditations
February 1, 2020
I confess to undemocratic meditations:
If Bin Laden had sought instead
to save the world,
what would he have hijacked?
A Poet Tries to Prioritize His Life
January 26, 2020
The dishwasher hums and the laundry’s put away.
Clean sheets, clean cutlery. A puddle of dust
on the hardwood, but the dog is on my lap
and a drowsy rain perfumes the house.
Allegory for an Unreasonable Age
December 19, 2019
One may well ask what good standing here.
How does reason answer to madness?
A hot shower can erase the cold but not
the shiver. Is it not better to fast than go hungry?
Power
November 28, 2019
I’m not going to argue the absurd, argue
That things are bad or going to get better.
We live in an age of immutable belief shaped
Don’t Let the Fascists Win
November 25, 2019
To write is to argue without evidence that beauty
pervades: the rainforest and the killing field,
sunsets and floods of acid rain on I-95.
Slogans Are Easy
November 3, 2019
We can never atone for the billions
spent on dark dreams
sawed through with ease,
Damnatio Memoriae
October 6, 2019
To resist through nonviolence, yes—
I’ll do what the data says is wise.
But to love is another matter:
I may wave the flag, but I am no patriot;
Is it not better to burn what they betray?