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[...] Creativity and opportunity were greater than ever, but the language of cultural criticism was changing too. It moved away from the centralized arbiters of taste and toward the open-source model of the social media platforms, driving sharply divisive debates that repeatedly flared up about the…

Art is not a matter of pointing up alternatives but rather of resisting, solely through artistic form, the course of the world, which continues to hold a pistol to the head of human beings.

[...] I believe the spirit of the people resides in the word—majuscule or not—as long as it is used wisely, considerately, and with care. If my reader fails to recognize themselves or to comprehend my usage in what follows, it will mean I have failed at some deeper level than any orthographic alter…

When I moved here, I imagined some kind of consensus that we were all players on the same “good team.” After all, each of us wakes up each morning to see the most beautiful mountains and somehow-­still-­blue water as we listen to the public radio report on the state’s governor signing one bill afte…

I’m first-­ generation, nothing special; I know people whose roots stretch much deeper. But I still see newcomers as an invading force—here to colonize, pillage, vanquish. The gold rush all but obliterated the Ohlone. Hippies displaced Black families from the Haight. The gay liberation crowd took o…