Wild possibilities and the heroes at the edges or at your side Neighbors, by Christopher Frost, in Forest Hills Cemetery where I walk my dogs sometimes. “Political awareness without activism means looking at the devastation, your face turned toward the center of things. Activism itself can generate hope because it
I want you to panic and act as if the house was on fire The Climate Strike in Boston today. It was a sweaty scene. Pretty much as long as climate change has been in the realm of public dialogue, there’s been this oddly accepted wisdom that there are
I've developed an uneasy ambivalence H. Widayat, Ikan Laut Dalam [Deep sea fish], 1987. via Rabih Alameddine Between Epstein and the Sackler family, there’s probably more scrutiny being placed on philanthropy and the donor class now than in decades—the sector’s flown under the radar for
You can't hide as much on an island. Joseph Mallord William Turner, Vignette Study of a Ship in a Storm via Rabih Alameddine From Sunday all the way into Tuesday, Hurricane Dorian pummeled the Bahamas, leaving behind mass destruction and flooding and a death toll of at least
Come to my house and call me a bedbug to my face Mascuppic Lake in Tyngsboro, Massachusetts, home to many dark family stories but also a good place to haul some ass on a jetski. I kind of didn’t want to talk about David Koch because there’s something
Humidity can be difficult. Usagi Yojimbo, Stan Sakai, 1987 Someone asked me recently who some of the leaders are in the climate change field and it was hard to think off the top of my head. I was like, oh, I don’t know and named some scientists, a couple
Won't you come and wash away the rain The Invisibles, Grant Morrison We have some really special billionaire villains these days, but our rising disdain toward wealthy donors is more of a return to form than many might realize. I love this quote from John D. Rockefeller’s
I am the last person in the world to start a newsletter and now we all have them, congratulations we did it. So the short version of why I decided to start a newsletter goes like this. I missed having a direct, unbranded platform, twitter is very bad, and nobody