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Finding Hope in Troubled Times? A Middle-Aged American's Retrospective, Part I
Hello, my fellow bugbears! I hope you are all as well as can be under the circumstances. It's probably pretty clear that I have been not especially well this winter. My productivity has stalled as I've been stunned, though not surprised, at the many abuses of
Fighting the Demoralizing Power of American Surreality
My fellow bugbears, I want to wish you all a happy New Year, but the phrase feels a bit awkward given how off the rails the illegitimate American regime has been since the beginning of the year. If you were asked to come up with one word that sums up
Good Riddance to 2025
Not gonna lie, I don't really want to look back at the shithole year we're about to leave behind. Even as I type this, the year continues to be shitty, with two GOP congressional representatives putting forth bills likely to be voted on before Christmas that
The Ugly Reality of American Islamophobia
Moral panic, especially in the United States, has always been a defining leitmotif of The Bugbear Dispatch. Sometimes, that means writing about current events directly tied to the news cycle; sometimes it means writing more abstract or at least less newsy essays with insights that are relevant to our historical