eSSAYS ON pOWER, cULTURE, AND rESPONSIBILITY
This work assumes adulthood. It doesn’t offer comfort through consensus. It’s written without grievance, spectacle, or moral outsourcing. Here, responsibility precedes freedom.
This is a growing archive of cultural and political commentary shaped by current events, media narratives, and the pressures of the moment. Each piece examines how power operates in public life, how responsibility is framed, displaced, or denied, and what it reveals about the culture producing it.
The work collected here responds to social flashpoints, political theater, cultural trends, and stories told to explain them. The aim isn’t consensus or comfort, but clarity, shaped by attention, pattern recognition, and refusal to look away.
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Help, With Conditions: Georgia’s SNAP Healthier Choices Act
Read the Story: Help, With Conditions: Georgia’s SNAP Healthier Choices ActThe author examines the Georgia SNAP Healthier Choices Act, arguing it prioritizes dietary compliance over hunger reduction, thus changing the intent of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. The bill introduces…
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The Precondition of Atrocity
Read the Story: The Precondition of AtrocityIn January 2026, federal immigration enforcement operations in Minneapolis and beyond became impossible to ignore. Not because they represented a sudden departure from history, but because the stories used to…
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Fluent in Scrolling: On Screens, Authority, and the Collapse of Self-Regulation
Read the Story: Fluent in Scrolling: On Screens, Authority, and the Collapse of Self-RegulationAbstract This work examines the long-term effects of early digital immersion on cognition, attention, and relational intelligence. It argues that screen culture trades embodied learning for passive consumption, producing adults…
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The Devolved Animal and the invention of Violence
Read the Story: The Devolved Animal and the invention of ViolenceAbstract This work examines the unsettling continuity between human violence and the instinctual behaviors of our primate and mammalian kin, arguing that what we call “civilization” has failed to evolve…
The Conscious Underground 