As one of the current darlings of MAGA’s upper echelons, my first impulse when I saw El Pais‘s interview with Curtis Yarvin was to immediately discount it as either a superficial piece of ego stroking or an extended game of cat and mouse where the mouse constantly hid behind thick panels of grandstanding and ad […]
The killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson sparked a mix of indifference and bloodlust in the public, reflecting anger towards the healthcare system. However, it failed to incite real change, illustrating deeper systemic issues.
A brief comment on revolution in the modern world
When buying a book becomes a political action…
Resisting the constant “call of the void”
A meditation on why we listen to the ghosts of our industrial past
Revisiting Brave New World and a new perspective on dystopia
It can be difficult reading articles that highlight shortcomings and failures within systems you, on the whole, endorse and support. This difficulty presented upon reading Harold Braswell’s editorial in The Washington Post commenting on alleged abuses suffered by disabled Canadian citizens. As someone with family connections to Canada and as a proponent of universal healthcare […]
So Amber Guyger was convicted. She is the off-duty Dallas cop who shot and killed her neighbor because she thought he was an intruder in her apartment and not, as it turned out, the other way around. Geiger is white. Her victim, Botham Jean, is black. The story fell into a strange place within the […]
No one in their right mind would support the thesis that the American healthcare system, as it exists currently, is not in need of immediate and tremendous repair. The disagreement, as it is with so many issues, comes not from a contention over the issue itself but rather what can or should be done to […]
Antidote Notes 