Under the Aqueduct

Larping Plenary Power

Not a great look, but it has a long pedigree

Oct 9 • 

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August 2025

Climbing into the 1% in the Age of Capitalist Excess

You can steal millions of dollars if you work for the right people, apparently.

Aug 21 • 

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June 2025

Is Bad Bunny Good? Does it Even Matter?

El hace lo que se da la gana, sure, but should we?

Jun 19 • 

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May 2025

AI in a World of Discipline

AI is changing things fast, and no more so than in education. Should we be worried?

May 21 • 

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Reason over Rhetoric

America goes nuts so the rest of us don't have to

May 8 • 

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April 2025

The Accidental Asset?

Vladimir Putin is a lucky guy.

Apr 19 • 

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Fiascoism

An Ideology of Incompetence for an Age of Idiocy

Apr 9 • 

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March 2025

With Friends Like These...

US strategy seems to be a simplistic and ideological iteration of the Prisoner's Dilemma.

Mar 6 • 

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February 2025

Reflexions on Loss

For the past month, a deer has been coming round to visit me every day at my cabin in the Canadian woods, parking itself under our bird feeder to feast…

Feb 1 • 

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January 2025

The State of Canada

And not in the sense of 51st.

Jan 15 • 

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December 2024

Metics, then and now

A winsome song to bid farewell to 2024

Dec 30, 2024 • 

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My Year in Books

A resolution to read more fiction has had a salubrious effect.

Dec 21, 2024 • 

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