It was clear fairly immediately that the political goal of the attacks on September 11th was to undermine the American empire. Sitting here less than...
I didn't think I'd keep reflecting on this day, but somehow I can't. It's been with me for most of my lifetime that I can remember, and perhaps more...
Every year, for twenty years now, I've written an observance of this day. Sometimes it's for myself, sometimes it's for the small cohort of folks who've checked...
A while back, when I wrote out in plain words that we have a politically dominant death cult ruling America right now, I worried about the risks of saying my...
A significant percentage of conservative culture in America defines “freedom” as death. This is causing a lot more problems right now than even its usual...
(Warning: this will be upsetting; you will not want to read this if you are already stressed.) [This piece was written in late February 2020, before there was...
There are kids now who are old enough to go fight in wars that were justified back when they still had their umbilical cords attached. For them, the attacks are...
For the first decade after the attacks, I basically didn’t go anywhere near that part of downtown. A business meeting would take me a few blocks away, and I’d...
There are going to be endless think-pieces and armchair analyses about why America elected Donald Trump as its next President. But you already know why. Don’t...
We’ve been saying “never forget” for so long that we don’t even know why we’re saying it. At JFK airport, panic over… nothing. On the other side of the country,...
Every single day, almost every mainstream news source in America offers live updates throughout the day on a few metrics which have almost no meaning for most...
This morning, I was extraordinarily excited to get to witness Mayor Bloomberg and our city’s new Chief Digital Office Rachel Sterne unveil New York City’s “Road...