Here is where I will write random stuff. Some long. Some short. Most of it will not be great. Some of it will be alright.
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Articles I liked from August 9 to August 26 2025
This week – Articles from 2025-08-12 to 2025-08-26 Each week I share the articles and essays that I found most interesting, annoying, challenging, or important. Hope that you check them out too. Heavy-handed use of labour code has painted federal government into a corner, unions say by Peter Zimonjic in CBC – Read here Will…
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Articles I liked from July 23 to August 8 2025
This week – Articles from 2025-07-23 to 2025-08-06 Each week I share the articles and essays that I found most interesting, annoying, challenging, or important. Hope that you check them out too. Opinion | How Smartphones Are Breeding a New Kind of Inequality – The New York Times by Mary Harrington in New York Times…
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Hope and Hatred – Teaching Populism to Undergrads
This fall, I’ll be teaching a course I’ve been building for a while: Hope and Hatred – Populism in America from the Colonies to Trump. The title reflects the contradictions at the heart of the subject. Populism has been a language of empowerment and solidarity, but also one of exclusion and resentment. It’s a political…