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A Note on L.A. Geography and Identity
Whenever a major disaster happens in a large metropolitan region, friends from outside the area panic.
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The Fire This Time
The city burning is Los Angeles’s deepest image of itself.
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Peter Yarrow's Pardon: Jimmy Carter and the Lost Virtue of Absolution
I do not charge for subscriptions any longer, and my writing is free to all, but if you are interested in supporting me and my work, I would very much…
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Role Reversals and Caregiving: a Black Sheep Considers the Babygirl Culture
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Friends With Money: On Manners, Expectation, and Pretense
I originally posted this in 2022, shortly before a sudden and happy influx of clients changed my financial circumstances dramatically.
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I Didn't See Babygirl but I'm Writing About it Anyway
Yesterday, I posted a plea on Facebook: “Please don’t let me write about Babygirl without having seen it first.”
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December 2024

Ticky Tacky Boxes: Environmentalism and Misanthropy in a Tourist Town
I am spending the last day of 2024 in my hometown.
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Final 'stack of the Year
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Many Roads to the Mountaintop
A friend whose politics are to the left of my own calls me out.
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The Iago Option: the Pelicot Trial, and the Next Right Thing for a Disgraced Defendant
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If the Left Wants to Win Again, They Need to Think Like a Youth Group Leader
Writing on his Substack today, Freddie DeBoer declares “As much as it annoys me, I have concluded that perhaps the most powerful force in politics is…
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The Year-End Countdown Thing
It is axiomatic among essayists that we cannot predict which of the things we write will become popular.
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