This Week's Writing 5/17/25

Riding towards apocalypse

Eustacia is shocked and horrified by what I published this week. You can be too!

Politics

The new pope and how the world is rejecting Trump. (Public Notice)

Trump is (one) logical endpoint of the GOP. (EIH)

Fighting antisemitism without Jews. (EIH)

Cultural Criticism

Ten years on, we’ve caught up to the apocalypse of Fury Road. (Observer.com)

Severance Season 2 gets lost in its own conspiracy theories. (EIH)

On Rolling Stone’s fairly awful list of the best lead singers of all time. (EIH)

Poetry

Uncharacteristically pro-poem poem. (Five Fleas)

A Poem That Wouldn’t Exist Without Auden

Poetry makes nothing happen.
Sometimes though,
something we need
is for nothing to happen.