tried to impress a girl when i was 17 by chugging a bottle of cough medicine and vomited it all up while watching Fight Club

My second piece from Liberal Currents! Here I try and lay out the ethos that I think Liberals should adopt towards the criminality and corruption of the Trump Administration, and what virtues we should model while we work to turn the tide.

its also, crucially, made all of us worse. some of us by a lot, others by just a little. but a piece of all of us has rotted away by necessity of having to accept this in order to go on with our lives, or by refusing to accept it and bearing the strain of that

One of my most conservative-coded opinions is that one of the reasons we're in this mess is because of the profound decadence, solipsism, moral rot, and general lack of personal virtue afflicting much of the upper PMC / bourgeoisie.

This sounds like the kind of tepid, mealy mouth words of someone who’s gonna run for president.