A Year of Magical Thinking

Elite impunity has fueled the fantasy that catastrophes are for other people.

Empire of Vice

In a perverse twist on virtue signaling, the Trump administration is training Americans in the politics of raw domination.

How Can We Live Together?

Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.

Doing the Unprecedented

Final response: Collective action must work at an atmospherically relevant scale.

Climate, State, and Utopia

The defeat of fossil fuel interests is the first step to social justice.

Talk Is Cheap

Freedom needs builders, not theorists.

The Fight for Reparations Cannot Ignore Climate Change

Racial redress should be modeled on the global anticolonial tradition of worldbuilding.

Identity Politics and Elite Capture

The wealthy and powerful will take every opportunity to hijack activist energies for their own ends.

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