In which Spiderman fails to save the day.
Humor as a weapon in oppressive states.
Links to the latest podcast episode and stories from others worth reading.
Childish thoughts on death, baseball as the family religion, and a longing to be somewhere else.
How we might think about people who do harm and why it matters.
Links to episode 2 of the podcast and some resources going forward.
Fifth in a series on childhood and exile from Appalachia.
Trump’s malicious chaos targets democracy at home and around the world.
Big news, a weekly schedule, and a little housekeeping.
On a journey to answer a riddle about literature, concentration camps, and stories from a lost world.
From my time teaching self defense, some reasons you might not have heard before.
What history tells us about what comes next, and what to do about it.
