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Trump’s Attack On The Economy Is An Opportunity

Who Spies on the Spies?

The Danger of Fascist Bipartisanship

Democrats Should Still Nominate Women for President

People Say Nice Things About My Poetry

This Week's Writing 5/3/25

Wallace Stevens and the Whiteness That Is There

What Would It Mean for Trump to Lose?

Elon Musk is committing a genocide

Did Trump Voters Want This?

New Poetry Book: Gnarly Thumbs!

This Week's Writing 4/26/25

June Jordan & the Erotic Politics of Being In The Wrong Place

Autistic People Feel Empathy

Mars Demands Your Language

Elon Musk is Autistic, and Also, Unrelatedly, a Horrible Person

Book News: Yet Another Heart of Darkness

This Week's Writing 4/19/25

Gavin Newsom Is A Piece of Shit

Van Hollen Shows the Way

Democrats Need To Forget the Lessons of the 2024 Election

How Loving Art Can Make You Hate

*Companion*’s Robots Aren’t Believable. That’s a Good Thing.

This Week's Writing 4/12/25

The King of Rock

Is Trump Corrupt Or Is He A Butthead?

In the Purge, American Fascism Is Stupid and Boring.

How Fascism Explains Trump’s Tariffs

New Chapbook: The Sentient Flock

Yes, Protests Matter

This Week's Writing 4/5/25

The Best Songs of 1955

Best Songs 1955-2015

Mini Chapbook: Apologies to Basho

Democracy Wins in Wisconsin…Sort Of

Some Worldbuilding Should Be Shoddy

Outside Llewyn Davis

Fiction Cultivates Empathy, Not Morality

This Week's Writing 3/29/25

Yang and Bengelsdorf Put America First

Why Signalgate Might Break Through

The Oligarchy Isn’t Really In Control

In Praise of Tetris

This Week's Writing 3/22/25

The Road to Trump Was Paved With Mass Incarceration

To Fight Fascism You Have To Fucking Fight It

The Whole Senate Is Complicit

On Becoming a Guinea Fowl Is a Painful Chronicle of Abuse and Silence

This Week's Writing 3/15/25

Senate Democrats Ritually Debase Themselves

Trump’s Racism Is Of Its Time

All Tentacled Horrors Are Created Equal

Leopards Don’t Always Eat Your Face

Wonder Woman: Bondage and Feminism

Anger at Dems is not a left/right issue

This Week's Writing 3/8/25

BREVITY: A New Poetry Collection

Why Do Ds And Rs React Differently to Election Losses?

Atticus Finch Would Have Voted for Trump

The Boycott and the Skeptics

Trump Greets Zelenskyy With Antisemitism

This Week's Writing 3/1/25

Democrats Who Attack Identity Politics Are Supporting Fascism

Nazi Dreams: An Ebook

Can Authentic Empathy Cause Harm?

The (Righteous) Cruelty Is the Point

In The Stepford Wives, Which Side Is The Author On?

This Week's Writing 2/22/25

Atrocities Don't Need to Be Popular

Revolt Against the Robot Revolution

On Substack, Meritocracy Is a Myth

Martin Niemöller Was an Antisemite

The Shadow King Vs. Lemon Meringue

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Joseph Brodsky and the God You Can't Mean

Saving Jews for Fun and Profit

Are We Doomed?

Joni Ernst Chooses Fascism

Why Is Six Hypersexualized in Battlestar Gallactica?

My full length poetry collection MEANING IS EMBARRASSING is out!

No, We Shouldn't Be Paying Attention to Something Else

The Reptile Less Travelled

“If This Were Fascism, You Couldn’t Say So”

Trump’s Weakness Is Not At Odds With His Fascism

The Bipartisan RFK Acclamation That Wasn’t

This Week's Writing 2/1/25

A Meditation on a Poem Out of My Control

The Best and Worst Songs of 1985

Fascism is a Moral Failing

This Week's Writing 1/25/25

Pritzker and Budde Need Your Support

Every David Lynch Movie, Ranked

Is Elon Musk an Asshole or Is He a Nazi?

20 Books That Influenced Me

Countee Cullen vs. Uncle Jim

This Week's Writing 2/17/25

Democrats Cave Because Trumpism Is In Fact What America Is

STRANGE DARLING Is Clever…But Not That Clever

What DAUGHTERS Can’t Say

Cop Shows Make Cops Look Exciting

Covers for Two New Poetry Collections

QUEER Is About Desires That Are Too Real and Not Real Enough

40% off sale ends this weekend; & This Week's Writing 1/10/25

Trump Wants To Disenfranchise Canadians

(Absolutely Not The) Oscar Predictions!

This Awards Season, Let’s Pray for the Death of Film

Racism Directed Against Meghan Markle Matters

HANDLING THE UNDEAD Depicts The Zombie Attack of Grief

This Week's Writing 1/4/25

The 25 Best Films of 2024

Resolving Not To Resolve Not To Make New Year’s Resolutions

The 30 Best Albums of 2024