Why his Appearance on Colbert Proved Just How Neutered Comedians and Journalists have Become America is a country at war. It’s a cold, uncivil Civil War where each side goes to battle every day on social media and in mainstream media. We tear each other apart without actual weapons. Clickbait headlines that go viral will do enough damage. Maybe someone will get fired. …

I have been online half my life. I turned to the internet and away from real life in 1994. William White, aka @whiteyy18 on TikTok would not be born until a year after I launched my own website around 2000. I’d already lived a whole life by then, a life…

It was the frog in boiling water, how we all migrated online and put our most private personal data, attention, time, energy and trust into Big Tech. That was a mistake. I got online in 1994, way before the internet was swallowed up by a handful of Silicon Valley wizards…

For the 2,000 or so who have subscribed to this Medium profile I thought I would give you a heads up about how and why my perspective has changed so dramatically in the past year. …

But does it even matter? “In the age of Facebook and Instagram you can observe this myth-making process more clearly than ever before, because some of it has been outsourced from the mind to the computer. It is fascinating and terrifying to behold people who spend countless hours constructing and embellishing a perfect self online…

How did mask wearing become such a partisan issue? How has it, like dealing with Climate Change, become a “symbol” of the left when it is simply a protection against a deadly disease? The left will say It’s ALL TRUMP’S FAULT! That’s partly true. But the left has also used…

In their book Pendulum: How Past Generations Shape Our Present and Predict Our Future, Roy Williams and Michael Drew map out how society repeats itself in cycles. In their book, the pendulum shift is a 40 year span. But there are other ways to see how the pendulum can swing…

With Ryan Adams Last year, we made the case for why Joe Biden would be our best bet against Donald Trump. I thought Bernie Sanders was the candidate that would bring on another 1972-like situation as the one thing guaranteed to drive voters to oppose, more than anything else, is…

Conversation and Debate is Better than Dehumanization and Suppression of Speech As a lifelong Democrat who has been fighting on what I thought was the right side I have never been so disappointed with how things have evolved than the reaction to this letter. While the critics of it do…