Wandering around an infinitely complex, ever changing world.
Associate Professor of Global Politics at University College London, Contributing Writer for The Atlantic, author of FLUKE: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters, and Creator/Host of the award-winning Power Corrupts podcast.
democracy and dictatorship, Russia and Ukraine, America and Europe, local and global, past and present
New writing on landscape, music, books, folklore, psychedelia, the natural world and other misty magical things outside the mainstream.
A interactive community and college-level course about disinformation, its impact on democracy, and how we can make America's social fabric more resilient to this new threat.
1) Find what's true and make it useful. 2) Publish every other Tuesday. 3) Photo cred: my dad.