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On inadvertent racism.
Just because you didn’t realize your actions were unkind doesn’t excuse you from blame. I’m still teaching my 2 year old this, but the Supreme Court should know better.
america’s original sin, arrest records misstate criminality, bad initial data perpetuates bad outcomes, bad supreme court rulings, elizabeth hinton, fewer pokestops in minority neighborhoods, flip phones, from the war on poverty to the war on crime, jim wallis, mobiles, niantic, pokemon go, race, racial injustice, social jutice, u.s. supreme court, war on poverty to the war on the poor, white privilege
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On AIDS and drought in Malawi.
It’s hard to save the forests for some nebulous future when you might die of AIDS (or even rabies!) within the year.
a history of violence, AIDS, charcoal, climate change, deforestation, drought, health care, health insurance, HIV, HIV epidemic, illegal charcoal production, inequality, infectious disease, Malawi, medical care, Peace Corps, poverty, rabies, rabies vaccine, reparations, the historical roots of inequality, wealth begets wealth, zero-parent households
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On stalking and the risk of seeming crazy.
Group stalking sounds crazy… but no crazier than the online harassment of women that’s been widely documented already.
Bill McKibben, David James, delusions, graphic threats not taken seriously by law enforcement, group stalking, how to discuss legitimate worries without enabling mental illness?, if you torture the data it will confess, internet harassment, internet trolls, Lorraine Sheridan, middle-school girls harassed to death, National Security Agency, NSA, on-campus stalking, one reason why women drop out of college, online harassment, online harassment of women, post traumatic stress disorder, PTSD, schizophrenia, stalking, suicide, telephone metadata, trolls
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On Robert Gordon’s ‘The Rise and Fall of American Growth.’
What if technological innovations are a cause of, not a solution to, our post-1970s economic morass?
Amazon, artificial intelligence, automation, CAFO, clean water, concentration of wealth, delivery drones, distribution of wealth, driverless cars, economics, electric appliances, factory farming, feminism, future technologies, GDP, GDP is not an effective measure of quality of life, GDP undercounts the value of caregiving, guaranteed basic income, Impossible Foods, increasing gains to capital, invention, labor versus capital, negative tax, no one’s choices should be curtailed because of gender, parenting, Pat Brown, pessimism, poverty causes stress, productivity, quality of life, reparations, Rise and Fall of American Growth, Robert Gordon, robotics, slow growth, social breakdown, Steven Rattner, technological progress, the value of a stay-at-home parent, wealth tax, William D. Nordhaus, women’s work has been historically undervalued
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On comics.
Meetings and seminars and such are boring… but who can find the time to doodle without them??
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On deer, wolves, and Sean Carroll’s ‘The Serengeti Rules.’
Monoculture — whether it’s a body churning out cancer cells, an environment churning out deer, or a world churning out Starbucks — is an illness.
apex predators, Beyond Words, Bloomington, Carl Safina, climate change, college kids need more fear, deer, ecological diversity, elk, environmentalism, gardening, gas tax, Hope Jahren, keystone species, Lab Girl, overbreeding, overpopulation, planting trees, population regulation, predation, Robert Paine, Sean Carroll, starfish, starvation, The Serengeti Rules, we need wilderness, wolves, Yellowstone
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Links to my writing elsewhere: Ashes.
An essay published by Chicago Literati. I’m glad she got to meet you. Rest in peace.
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On horror, healing, and Joanna Connors’s ‘I Will Find You.’
In a courageous effort to heal, an investigative reporter uncovers the long history of violence behind her own trauma.
American Salvage, Bonnie Jo Campbell, forgiveness, healing, hurt people hurt people, I Will Find You, inequality starts before birth, investigative journalism, Joanna Connors, lost innocence, meth, methamphetamine, nature versus nurture, preemptive punishment, PTSD, racial disparities in the criminal justice system, rape, rape prosecution, sexual assault, The Trespasser, vengeance
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Links to my writing elsewhere: We’ve Been Rooting for the Wrong Side in Zombie Wars.
This piece appears at The Weeklings. The publish a wide variety of fun essays — if you’re both an overanxious parent and the sort of person who enjoyed Jeffrey Steingarten’s essay on cooking for his dog, you’ll love this one by Eric LeMay. Starting from the idea that babies, through amniotic fluid, can taste the…
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On attending a Black Lives Matter rally with dreadlocks.
I’m sorry if my appearance caused pain… but *not* attending would’ve caused even more harm.
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