I was fifteen when death moved out of the distance and into the bed beside me, and it took years before I stopped seeing it as an enemy.
· 13 min read
The whore of Babylon was always us
I thought religion was a trick for gullible people. Then the old stories started looking less like superstition and more like a report on the crowd, and on me.
· 8 min read
The side effect of knowing yourself
The most confident people I have known never seem particularly interested in the question of how they look. That, it turns out, is the trick.
· 5 min read
How we choose the slaughterhouse
You think you think for yourself. You don't. You follow, repeat, defend, and call the fence your own judgement.
· 5 min read
How fear turns the good in us into corruption
Corruption rarely starts with a bad person. It starts with a good one who learns to use goodness as an alibi.
