Archive - Scenes from a Slow Civil War

On the Christian Education of Dr. Vance Boelter

When a bullet is a "prayer"

Jun 14 •

May 2025

A Syllabus for Right Now: Week Four

Week Four: Yes, and—

May 1 •

April 2025

A Syllabus for Right Now: Week Three

This afternoon I was sitting on a bench outside my office reading ahead in my syllabus when a colleague stopped to chat.

Apr 26 •

A Syllabus for Right Now: Week Two

Week Two of a weekly syllabus/reader for the creative nonfiction course I’m building in real time to document what my Dartmouth colleague Jeff Ruoff…

Apr 25 •

The Reporters: A Syllabus for Right Now

On documenting the pauses between fight or flight

Apr 2 •

March 2025

Kristi Noem and fascism's sadistic eroticization of power

Mar 27 •

February 2025

There Are No Faces

The White House releases bondage porn.

Feb 19 •

A Strong Arm and the Missing Spine

Our second dispatch on the state of Democratic Party from correspondent "Crankstock."

Feb 17

Bodies Will Swing

What one woman wanted of Trump's return. This was her dream. We're getting there.

Feb 15 •

The Higher Ed Frontline

What's now called for in every classroom.

Feb 8 •

Betrayed by The Daily

New Hampshire correspondent "Crankstock" sends a letter to the editor

Feb 7 •

January 2025

Patriotic Education and the End of History

Or, a brief history of today's erasure of history.

Jan 30 •

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