Society

bus driver on Mars

Bus Driver on Mars

To live outside of one’s ecological context—and in fact where no ecology of any relevance exists—would require somehow creating a suitable ecology, or borrowing a sufficiently-complete subset of an existing one that can tolerate a completely novel setting for which the beings are not adapted.

February 25, 2026

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Humanity as Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde: The Symptoms, Patterns, and Drivers

In this week’s Frankly, Nate looks at how aggregate human behavior changes as groups scale from small tribes to large and complex societies. He uses the framing of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde throughout the episode to illustrate how traits that once helped small groups survive can serve to destabilize complex societies when expanded globally.

February 23, 2026

"Gassed" (1919). Painting about World War I by John SInger Sargent via Wikimedia Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sargent,_John_Singer_(RA)_-_Gassed_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg

Wars and rumors of wars: Iran edition

An attack on Iran appears imminent. Here’s why I think it’s unlikely that we’ll see President Trump “TACO” this time.

February 22, 2026

Milwaukee Women's March

Widening the We: Meeting the Crisis of Common Sense

Building an inclusionary common sense will take an understanding of the relationship between our social history, our experience of inclusionary social policies, and the opposing psychosocial dynamic that promotes a readiness to scuttle the gains those policies produced through a belonging based on fear and threat.

February 20, 2026

Author's mother selling fruit in a market

Black History Month: Land, Power, and the Knowledge That Survived

What forms of ecological knowledge have we ignored because they emerged from survival rather than privilege—and what would it require to center them now?

February 19, 2026

air pollution

National Security

One thing is clear—when politicians invoke the phrase “national security,” they are never talking about security for the people who live in this country.

February 19, 2026

St. Ann's Community Orchard

Joyful hedonism

But if form is all there is, there is never justification for ever harming another body. And that is the light that will lead us out of this rotten, brain-damaged culture…Into a life of joyful hedonism…

February 18, 2026

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