This Week's Writing 8/9/25
Why Stephen Miller isn't a kapo, and more.
Eustacia is holding down that box.
Here’s what I published this week.
Politics
Stephen Miller isn’t a kapo. He’s much worse. (Revealer)
The Trumpcession is here. (Public Notice)
I talked to Matthew Sheffield about Sydney Sweeney and phantom lib syndrome. (Flux)
Democrats need to be more negative. (EIH)
Pritzker models solidarity. (EIH)
Cultural Criticism
Meritocracy (in dating) is a myth. (EIH)
On art fraud Barry Averich’s The Devil Wears Rothko. (Observer.com)
John Ashbery’s extremely silly “Glazunoviana.” (Splice Today)
A cheer for the inauthenticity of Air Supply. (EIH)
Poetry
God contacted me and told me to write a chapbook. (Periodicities)
A hard hitting haiku. (Five Fleas)
Bleak truth:
the envelope
is too small.
Little poem in memory of my dad. (Five Fleas)
The last book my dad read
was a biography of Neville Chamberlain.
I wish he’d finished it.
I wish he hadn’t finished.
Agreed: Stephen Miller is not a kapo. Pursuing his own white-centric interests since youth, he has become associated with, and a forceful advocate for, racist ideologies. He is a hater of brown people. He is a person comfortable with using cruelty and violence to achieve his goal of a totally white America. It is easy to understand why many people think of him as following in the footprints of Joseph Goebbels. He is, therefore, not someone we want with the power of the now-corrupted US government at his disposal.
There will be trials for such people in the future, but until then, it appears that he will be free to act out his racist fantasies. I mean, who in a position of real power is willing to go against him? The purveyors of the Project 2025 agenda don't care what the American people want. Their agenda is being forced upon our nation, thanks to an electoral system that is too easily controlled by money and disinformation, and a GOP Congress who are either fearful for their lives (!) or reelections (!), or are enthusiasts for an authoritarian state.