The Anchor

Another heads up . . . .

A piece which I had lovingly gestated for years and finally put to writing last year has been published today at the Manifest Station. Below is the…

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July 2025

Just a little heads up . . . .

This substack has received a fair bit of new subscribers recently and I haven’t posted in some time, mostly due to scheduling and personal factors.

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May 2025

A Redemption on Chandrila

Andor, Season Two has saved the Star Wars franchise from ignominy

May 7 • 

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The Small Breezes Might Kill

Frailty and ambivalence in a hard knock culture

May 2 • 

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April 2025

Time Has Not Yet Come

Do not say goodbye

Apr 10 • 

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My Book Will Be Both True and False

GenX stories are inherently slippery

Apr 2 • 

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March 2025

The Good Politics of Sarah McBride

Trans liberation—along with all other liberations—has the greatest chance of success through economic liberation

Mar 13 • 

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February 2025

There Are No Kanye Wests in the Dictatorship of the Proletariat

Class society limits conversations about art

Feb 19 • 

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Three Things Trump is Doing Which Everyone on the Left Needs to Celebrate

A Dialectic in Three Acts

Feb 12 • 

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January 2025

No Such Thing As a Benevolent Billionaire

Liberal priorities need straightening

Jan 28 • 

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It Takes a Village People

Semiotic freedom is put to the test

Jan 22 • 

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Me and Mr. Lynch

My prophet is gone

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