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Commonwealth, II: Switching Station No. 1

September 27, 2019 By Adam Lee

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Beneath the metropolis of New York, Rae and her coworkers labor to keep the trains running. Read more

Dystopia Journal #33: Climate Strike

September 25, 2019 By Adam Lee

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As unfair as it is, if we manage to save the world, it seems likely that we’ll have to drag the denialists kicking and screaming to their own rescue. Read more

It’s All About Honesty

September 23, 2019 By James A. Haught

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A person with integrity doesn’t claim to know supernatural things that he or she cannot know. Read more

Commonwealth, I: Snow

September 20, 2019 By Adam Lee

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In which we meet our hero, on a hot, snowy night, in a future New York City changed beyond imagining… Read more

Parenting Is An Optimistic Endeavor

September 18, 2019 By Adam Lee

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We have kids because we believe that, whatever struggles or setbacks they face along the way, their lives will be better than ours. Read more

Agog Over Gog and Magog

September 16, 2019 By James A. Haught

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[Editor’s Note: If the wild incompetence and racism of the Trump administration makes you feel nostalgia for George W. Bush – a thought I’ve caught myself having a few times – then today’s post is a useful corrective. —Adam] By James A. Haught Incredibly, when President George W. Bush was stampeding the Iraq invasion in 2003, he told French President Jacques Chirac that the attack was needed to thwart Gog and Magog, the Bible’s satanic agents of the Apocalypse. Honest…. Read more

Friday Night Music: Level Up

September 13, 2019 By Adam Lee

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I came across Vienna Teng while reading up on hopepunk for the article I published today, and I immediately knew I’d found something special. Most of her five studio albums are heavy on piano ballads, melancholy and contemplative. But her most recent, Aims, is more up-tempo. This album is from 2013, but it’s astonishing how well it fits the tenor of our time. All of it is excellent, but this song is my favorite. Whenever I’m feeling tempted to anger… Read more

Prelude to Commonwealth, III: Hopepunk Dreams

September 13, 2019 By Adam Lee

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Especially in dark times, stories of hope and utopia show us how the world could be better than it is, and thereby give us a blueprint for creating that better world. Read more