Archive - Alien Nation

You Can't Cope Forever.

Why I'm doing this.

Apr 23 •

March 2024

Disease, Disability, and deBoer (Part Two)

On chronic Lyme, Ross Douthat and psychosomatic bullshit.

Mar 24 •

Disease, Disability and deBoer (Part One)

Against universalizing the particulars.

Mar 12 •

February 2024

The Meaning of Our Suffering.

Seeing and Salvation.

Feb 17 •

Know Thy Enemy.

A Cultural Criticism.

Feb 5 •

December 2023

My Own Worst Enemy.

Suffering and change.

Dec 23, 2023 •

The Long, Heavy Black.

On living hells and waking nightmares.

Dec 1, 2023 •

October 2023

Life in My Childhood Bedroom (Video)

The features of my face and a poem from a reader.

Oct 27, 2023 •

Slowing Things Down.

On uphill battles and blood spatters.

Oct 10, 2023 •

September 2023

Appreciation and Apology.

Goodbye for now.

Sep 16, 2023 •

August 2023

Love and Seeing.

A note on the superpower of human empathy.

Aug 31, 2023 •

The Good Doctor

My Piece in City Journal on Viktor Frankl

Aug 20, 2023 •

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