Readings

It’s hard to shake the notion that the defuturing of the future suggests something larger: not that the future is now, but that the future may never get past now.

Whatever happens over the next four years, remember that you didn’t bring this abuse upon yourself. You don’t deserve it. If your needs aren’t being met, it’s not because you have too many needs.

No one wants a mewling essay full of apologies. It’s almost an act of selfishness—to share an apology reflects weakness. Trump knew it all along: there's no social capital in culpability.

The farther I am from my home in Zimbabwe, the farther I am from my mother and the daughter she remembers. 

Talking to the author of Walking With Abel about reporting from conflict zones, the impact of grief on her reporting, and what it means to write "magical non-fiction." 

What are the selves we paint out there but a kaleidoscopic refraction of our multiple desires for who we wish to be?

Here are four things I gave up this year. 

This year, we have witnessed the mainstreaming of the idea that most, perhaps all, things are being orchestrated by shadowy forces outside of our control.

Thousands of Gold Rush prospectors climbed the Chilkoot, and many lost their lives. In the grand tradition of Dark Tourism, I decided to join the 2,500 people who now hike it for fun every summer.