Don’t call it a comeback nytimes.com/2021/09/17/wor…

Will be interesting to see how the reception of US vax mandates compares to the “collapse of French vaccine hesitancy” following their mandates economist.com/europe/2021/09…

I passed my Oxford D.Phil. Viva (Ph.D. defense) with no corrections! So many people to thank!!!

My latest column in Howey Politics Indiana arguing for a more principled debate surrounding emergency powers and other state-level intergovernmental issues howeypolitics.com/Content/Defaul…

A rousing poem on the necessary “gamble” of disability activism ♿️ poetryfoundation.org/poems/155147/t…

Do you think reminding citizens of their mutual dependence for so much would increase cohesion (and other good things) or further division? Why/why not?

PSA: Explaining a term‘s etymology is sometimes enlightening, but almost never counts very strongly argumentatively. Don’t let writers or academics get away with this!

“So yes, let’s take a moment to celebrate Helen Keller, and then let’s imagine what it might mean to BE like her … to realize that acceptance and inclusion are ever-evolving things made possible by choice and determination, not by miracles.” nytimes.com/2021/10/21/opi…

Is there a term for like conceptual onomatopoeia? E.g. the word “meretricious” is itself meretricious