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gasp new adam curtis soon youtube.com/watch?v=AQc862…

for The Nation I wrote about last Friday’s tornado in St. Louis

we love a mad completionist project. hats off to a real one

The risk of emphasizing destruction in St. Louis's northside is that may be used as to write the area off, writes Devin 🌱 Thomas O'Shea. But the northside is what makes St. Louis itself—it is not some disposable sacrifice zone. thenation.com/article/econom…

I'm quoted in this Rolling Stone piece on AI and spiritual experience (I compared it to spiritualism) rollingstone.com/culture/cultur…

Rip Torn on the Larry Sanders show is maybe top 3 all-time comedic roles for me. The way he curses hits so hard it’s incredible, like Matt Berry, anything he says is funny.

A year after the encampments, I've got a piece in Home/Field Anthropology about the student claim that "WashU is everywhere" b/c of its complicity in the war economy vs uni attempts to oust protesters from the campus community: homefieldanthro.org/inside-and-out…

one of the most exciting books I have come across in some time. a theory of mounds as a form of "earth writing" upress.umn.edu/9781517912338/…

Professor Allen with an in-depth history of St. Louis' policies that created a "slow-motion Katrina" long before the tornado

Strong agree, and not just kids. We need a cultural movement that invites and challenges people to reclaim their attention slate.com/life/2025/05/c…

Ray Bradbury; this is how you rebuild an attention span

Most people may not know this, but 90%+ of working archaeologists are employed by consulting firms whose income is almost entirely state/federal contracts or in state/federal agencies. Extinction-level event for the discipline nytimes.com/2025/05/26/sci…

Look up the top employers in your state. You’ll realize how true this is. There are cities and towns whose entire economy is held up by colleges and universities. A lot of businesses wouldn’t exist without college students, faculty and staff.

back to writing again today. first day after a break is always a re-read of the draft as it is and hoo boy

hell of a time to be working on a book about the history of us-iran relations