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Laramie Graber
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Jul 17, 2022

Mitt Romney and Centrist Denial

Centrists like to frame themselves as the rational ones: While everyone else squabbles and succumbs to radicalism, they work for unity through compromise. They situate themselves at the center of an illusory left vs. right binary as if they alone can solve the issues confronting us. …

Mitt Romney

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Mitt Romney and Centrist Denial
Mitt Romney and Centrist Denial
Mitt Romney

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Feb 13, 2022

Bill Maher and the False Challenge of Edgy Comedy

Edgy comedians often assert that edgy comedy has inherent value. That edginess is automatically groundbreaking and people who don’t like edgy humor just don’t like to be challenged. This logic is nonsense. There might be no better example of this than Bill Maher. Take this recent piece by Adrian Hennigan…

Bill Maher

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Bill Maher and the False Challenge of Edgy Comedy
Bill Maher and the False Challenge of Edgy Comedy
Bill Maher

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Nov 3, 2021

Dune and Why Art is Not a Zero-Sum-Game

Even as audiences enjoy Dune, it is being criticized for a range of elements including its muted colors, slow pacing, and overt portentousness. All fair criticisms to be sure except a number of these opinions go on to imply that Dune shouldn’t have been made because it’s taking science fiction…

Dune

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Dune and Why Art is Not a Zero-Sum-Game
Dune and Why Art is Not a Zero-Sum-Game
Dune

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Oct 8, 2021

What We Miss About Anti-Vaxxers

There’s an inordinate amount of talk about how to convince people to get vaccines and wear masks — and a lot of it misses a crucial point. Let’s start with a story: I work at a welcome desk for a gym and one day a pizza delivery guy came in…

Covid 19

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What We Miss About Anti-Vaxxers
What We Miss About Anti-Vaxxers
Covid 19

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Apr 14, 2021

Crime Shows Overemphasize Threat

In the wake of George Floyd’s murder and the subsequent Black Lives Matter protests, crime shows are increasingly under the microscope. Areas of criticism include how cop shows endorse and/or normalize police brutality and misconduct, the limited diversity in writers’ rooms and the stories they tell, and the myth of…

Law And Order

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Crime Shows Overemphasize Threat
Crime Shows Overemphasize Threat
Law And Order

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Mar 24, 2021

Social Programs Enable Personal Responsibility

It is hard to argue that taking personal responsibility for your life is not a good thing. However, in America this has warped into an argument against most social programs. You’ll see the idea pop up often in arguments against the Covid-19 stimulus bill passed by Democrats where claims are…

Universal Basic Income

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Social Programs Enable Personal Responsibility
Social Programs Enable Personal Responsibility
Universal Basic Income

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Mar 12, 2021

The Term ‘Cancel Culture’ is Destructive

What is cancel culture? What drives cancel culture? Is cancel culture a problem? These questions swirl around endlessly on the internet and media discourse like some bottomless whirlpool. (I’ve weighed in too.) …

Cancel Culture

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The Term ‘Cancel Culture’ is Destructive
The Term ‘Cancel Culture’ is Destructive
Cancel Culture

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Feb 26, 2021

The Harmful Pursuit of the Perfect Story

No book can appeal universally to all audiences. No work of art can. Yet, to the detriment of stories, universal perfection is still regarded as an ideal. Universal perfection is the idea that it is possible to create an objectively masterful story that somehow enthralls each and every person that…

Writing Tips

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The Harmful Pursuit of the Perfect Story
The Harmful Pursuit of the Perfect Story
Writing Tips

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Feb 12, 2021

Decentering Ourselves through Storytelling

We tend to be self-centered. And this makes perfect sense on a practical level given we experience the world through our bodies and eyes. We are literally the center of our own universes. However, failing to escape an exclusively self-centered perspective is harmful to others and ourselves. …

Self Help

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Decentering Ourselves through Storytelling
Decentering Ourselves through Storytelling
Self Help

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Feb 3, 2021

Reading the Masterful and Less than Masterful to Write Better

Some people only read stories that are considered masterful to become better writers. I find it every bit as important to read stories that are good, but don’t quite come together. This is why. In my creative writing classes, I studied stories that were considered masterful: those by James Baldwin…

Writing Tips

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Reading the Masterful and Less than Masterful to Write Better
Reading the Masterful and Less than Masterful to Write Better
Writing Tips

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