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No Happy Ending: Steven Universe as Bleak Parable
Steven Universe: The Movie revisits and rethinks the hopeful series.
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This Week's Writing 10/1/23
Biden's labor renaissance, Isle McElroy's People Collide, and more!
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September 2023
It’s Okay to Criticize Feinstein
In a democracy, death is a moment to assess legacies.
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Chris Arnade and The Limits of Real America Reporting
Empathy can't substitute for anaysis
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Why I’m Okay With Being Called a ‘Content Creator’
Widgets unite!
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Star Trek TOS S2E10: Journey to Babel
Dad logic.
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This Week's Writing 9/23/23
Stop Making Sense, the GOP vs. Anne Frank, the limits of empathy, and more!
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Empathy Doesn't Make You Less Racist
Saidiya Hartman argues that erasing difference can be an act of aggression.
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Interviewing Trump is Useless
The media should just stop doing it.
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Are the Supremes a Rock Band?
Genres are often defined by race and gender—and therefore by bigotry.
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This Week's Writing 9/17/23
On the sadism of cozies, the GOP vs. the impeachment process, and more!
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Jann Wenner Is Garbage. But Not Because He's a Boomer.
He's garbage because he erases boomers who aren't white men.
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