Our environmental politics has failed. It’s time to chart a new course. Why we’ve failed is complex. Yet, I think many of these reasons funnel into the failure of our language. Let’s Examine Our Language and Offer Fresh Alternatives The…
Today’s newsletter will be unusually long. These are unusual times. I’d like to use my voice to offer a perspective on Latin American immigration that few politicians or media channels will touch. I Will Not Repeat Any Typical Immigration Talking…
Highways cutting up cities shares a lot of parallels to when we allowed smoking indoors. Until the 1990s, people smoked inside. This was terrible for everyone’s health, including those who weren’t smoking, due to secondhand smoke. When they banned smoking…
Note: This essay originally appeared in my monthly newsletter. If you would like to receive my next one, you can subscribe here. As I look back on this year, a theme that stands out is how I have leaned into…
Freedom and control. These two buzzwords have a lot of sway in the American imagination. Freedom might be the most powerful single word in America. We’ve built an entire national identity around it. These terms have enter the rhetorical fight for creating…
Once this therapy concept clicked, it gave me a new lens to understand propaganda and political talking points. It took me a bit to grasp it, but once I did, I started seeing it everywhere. It’s called “negative projection,” and…
“[City planners] are all in the same elaborately learned superstition as medical science was early in the last century, when physicians put their faith in bloodletting…” — Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities In The Death…