Archive - Empty Brain

Time’s Up on America’s Vibes-Based Order

A bunch of monkeys in a room of typewriters, given infinite time, eventually write Shakespeare: a bunch of humans in a bad democracy, given a few…

May 23 •

April 2025

NYC must DREAM, but also B-JAZZ

Get me a 5-candidate slate and cross-endorsement, ASAP

Apr 25 •

The Only Goal is Removal

But the way there requires a multitiude

Apr 22 •

How to think about crisis

The emergency is here -- but it also was and will be. And that's okay.

Apr 18 •

March 2025

Your children are next

An open letter to the elders of the American Jewish community

Mar 24 •

Bravery is not complicated

"No Other Land" and the State of the Union

Mar 5 •

February 2025

Disillusionment is the soil

We have to know why there's been no opposition so that we can build the opposition

Feb 13 •

January 2025

What are we supposed to do?

Four options for action under the weight of the world

Jan 24 •

Squid Game Season 2 is testing you

Don't mistake a game for the world, when the world is the game

Jan 8 •

December 2024

Seltzer Socialism

Pass me a can, or twelve, of that.

Dec 27, 2024 •

Helping ourselves help ourselves

Understanding the international boundaries of empathy

Dec 9, 2024 •

How to Win at Losing

The consequences of shifting right

Dec 5, 2024 •

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