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BRIDGES ARE SOCIALISM

The great MetLife Stadium walking debate, why a bridge is not about crossing a road, but because bridges are socialism.

AMERICACAPITALISM

Faith, morality, and why believing in God can sometimes feel less like a question of goodness and more like a question of membership.

MORALITYPERSONAL

THE INEFFICIENCY OF DISHONESTY

Why content without effort feels like dishonesty, and why human messiness might matter more than ever online.

Why a cancer diagnosis felt like relief from a question I didn't even notice I was asking.

MENTAL HEALTHPERSONAL

VIVE LA DÉMOCRATIE

Vive la démocratie! From the Illuminati to technocrats, why every generation reinvents the same debate about who deserves to run the world.

AMERICACONSPIRACY

Why peace might just be an arrangement of restraint rather than the absence of danger

PHILOSOPHYPOLITICS

Thoughts on suicide, guilt, and why the common idea that people simply “want to die” misses something important.

MENTAL HEALTHPERSONAL

99.9 PERCENT GASLIT

Marketing: When God gives you lemonade, sell lemons - as commercial conditioning claps.

CULTUREPOLITICS

ART OF ABSOLUTION

Reinventing yourself after trauma - and what it means to seek absolution from the person you had to become to survive.

CHILDHOODMENTAL HEALTH

DEFECTIVE EPILOGUE

Why creating never feels like enough, why rest feels like guilt, and how a childhood labelled defective can make happiness feel unsafe.

DRAWING A LINE UNDER INTEGRITY

A final attempt to untangle morality, empathy, and integrity - to understand why some people cross lines others refuse to.

EMPATHYMORALITY

THE CAKE IS A LIE

Cruelty, moral collapse, and the possibility that evil isn’t the exception - but the human default. Last time about morality - promise

EMPATHYMORALITY