The Big Saudi Sellout
Sean Murphyi. Look, this doesn’t warrant or require a great deal of description or detail. A bunch of hacks sold out. This Substack is reader-supported. To receive new posts and support…
Academia Is Engagement, Not Indoctrination
I remember first learning I wasn't white my second year of college. Well, not really white. By that I mean that I encountered other white people—men from small towns south of northern…
George Floyd, Five Years Later
I wasn’t naive or historically ignorant enough to think, when Obama won the presidency in convincing fashion in 2008, that America had finally transcended racial matters. But I’ll admit being…
Original Poem: ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY, 1967: MUHAMMAD ALI REFUSES ARMY INDUCTION*
*From 2023: My thanks to Words & Sports Quarterly for publishing my poem about how America handled Muhammad Ali and his (spiritually & politically astute, prescient) conscientious objection to the Vietnam war.…
Elon’s House of Suffering: More of This, Please
The wheels of justice turn slowly, but grind exceedingly fine. Wonderful news from the wonderful team at The Atlantic about the wonderful, hopefully ongoing comeuppance and ceaseless misery that is…
Bill Maher’s Missed Opportunity
I'm deeply grateful to continue this collaboration with The Good Men Project, and appreciate them supporting my work. It's a shame Larry David stole my thunder via the The New York Times (just…
This is The Question, There are No Other Questions
Toward the end of The Verdict, Paul Newman's mentor first admonishes him, reminding him that he broke the first law of being a trial lawyer, which is: never asks a…
1925, 2025
“Civilization’s going to pieces...I’ve gotten to be a terrible pessimist about things. Have you read ‘The Rise of the Colored Empires’ by this man Goddard? Well, it’s a fine book,…
Thank You, Jeff Bezos
Thank you, Jeff Bezos. On one hand, the news coming out this morning from the Washington Post issimultaneously shocking, grotesque, and, in ways that would only be possible in 2025, totally predictable. Sean…
Feb 8, 2025: The Rebirth of a Nation
February 8, 1915: "The Birth of a Nation" opens in L.A., glorifying the KKK. (More via History.Com.) 110 years ago. Narrative. This movie was not only a "reflection of the…