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The Solution to COVID-19 Is Staring Us in the Face

April 18, 2020

Just as with hurricanes, poverty, terrorism, and all those other “isms” that bedevil mankind, the answer to COVID-19 is to increase military spending and cut taxes.

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Business / Musings / philosophy / Politics

What Bliss Has to do With Horror: An American Reverie on War and Peace

April 11, 2020

It is late-April 2003 and I’m well enough to bathe. Mom draws
the bath, peels off clothes and bandages. A month of sweat and blood
disappears in eddies of soap and steam. Civilians cower in fear—

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America on the Brink / poetry

A Treatise on Love, Hate, and Pragmatism in the Era of Trump

March 22, 2020

On June 13, 2016–right in the middle of one of the most consequential presidential elections in American history–“an American-born man who’d pledged allegiance to ISIS gunned down 49 people…at a gay nightclub in Orlando.” The Pulse Nightclub shooting was, at […]

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philosophy / Politics

What COVID-19 Does, and Does Not, Teach Us About Climate Change

March 21, 2020

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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Musings / philosophy / Politics

Philanthrocapitalism

February 29, 2020

I am a wealthy god who cares about the poor.
I’ve built them shopping malls to worship me,
paid for stained-glass windows to let in a little light
filtered in my image, crafted search engines to ask
for things I am too wise to give away:

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philosophy / poetry / Politics

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

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Politics

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.

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Business / Capital Good Fund