October 23, 2025
First YouTube Short on Sucking at Popularity
Watch my first YouTube short! I talk about an idea I shared on the recent episode of the New Thoughts Podcast: it's ok to suck at popularity.
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October 11, 2025
Speaking of Unity
This sermon reflects on love and unity amid conflict, providing insights on managing anger and nurturing connections.
October 2, 2025
You probably think this algorithm is about you. It’s not.
No because the algorithm isn't about you?! You won’t go viral talking to yourself, but you will feel miserable again. That's good news.
September 20, 2025
Narrating Adolescence
A quick take on two books, *The Anxious Generation* and *How We Grow Up.* Tweens and teens need more inclusionary feminists in their lives.
September 15, 2025
Free Speech, Free Reign: The Pious Speech of Andrew Sullivan
Andrew Sullivan insists that speech is never violent. He's wrong. Every democracy acknowledges a link between speech and violent conduct.
March 26, 2025
Fixated on Masculinity
In episode 3 of Netflix's "Adolescence," Jamie Miller, accused of murder, meets psychologist Briony Ariston, who takes extra time to assess him, realizing he cannot accept his actions. The episode highlights the complexities of social media's influence and parental responsibility, questioning societal narratives around victimization and empathy.
February 5, 2025
What is Biological Truth?
Trump's Executive Order to restore "biological truth" is a will to power that expresses his desire to be saved from "immutable" biological reality. It gives renewed meaning to David M. Halperin’s argument, made in *Saint Foucault: Towards a Gay Hagiography*: Whenever we (i.e., bodies that incarnate different truths) hear the Trump Administration “invoke the notion of ‘truth,’ we reach for our revolvers."
