Category: Essays
Does AEW Have a Diversity Problem? Here’s What They Need to Fix in 2022
AEW has revolutionized professional wrestling, but it still has room for improvement, especially regarding diversity.
MLK Is Not Your Magical Negro
In the Kingist myth, MLK was a superhuman; this is more damaging than it sounds.
Senators Used to Be Giants. Now They’re Trolls
Senators don’t wear togas anymore. They don’t glide towards the forum clutching six yards of white fabric rimmed in blood-red, but they are inheritors of the Roman legacy. They still […]
Definitive Proof we Aren’t Living in a Matrix
I’ve written before that I believe our existence has a high probability of being a computer simulation, a matrix. I still believe this, in a sense, and I can also […]
Democrats and Republicans Didn’t Switch Positions on Race
In conventional wisdom, it’s cute and common to say that Democrats and Republicans have switched positions on race. The conventional cuteness says that Democrats were racists until the early 70s […]
Was September 11th an Inflection Point? The 5 Different 9/11s: Part 5
We’ve covered many of the ways the events of that day are still impacting us now, but are they enough for it to add up to being an inflection point in human history?
The Civil War Was About Slavery. We Brought Receipts.
If the Civil War wasn’t about slavery, somebody should have told the Confederates.
This December I’m Celebrating The Matrix
I’ll never recapture the high of watching it for the first time, but this December, I get to go back to the Matrix. All you Reloaded and Revolutions haters can just stay asleep and ignorant in the world The Matrix created.
None Dare Call It Racism
Racism is never a popular political strategy in U.S. politics because if it is popular, none dare call it racism.
The 5 Different 9/11s Part 4: Holy War
What constitutes a holy war?