Robinson Jeffers and the hope of human extinction

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This past spring and summer, political correctness—perhaps inevitably—took a full turn and became a campaign to erase the worst things that dead white men have done in our history. This…

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Exclusion and Confession, the two slamming doors of America

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Since Inauguration Day, across Silicon Valley I’ve been hearing software engineers who earn six figures talk about solidarity, collective action, and the rise of labor against capital. In July, word…

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A week of stand-up in Hollywood’s toughest room

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How the new monopolies are destroying open markets

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Welcome to the new tent cities

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Field trip to a museum of natural (un)history

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Johnie Scott, twenty, was born in the ward of a women’s prison. It was his impromptu speech, described below, which electrified this summer’ White House Conference on Civil Rights. Scott is a member of Budd Schulberg’s writing workshop at the Watts Happening Coffee House.

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