Scratch

Scratch

About the Substack

Scratch is a column that celebrates human agency in a culture awash in cheap consumer goods and A.I. It's about creating — instead of buying or simply accepting — the stuff, nature, and purpose of our lives. It's about what we make that makes us human.

Free Subscription Benefits

• Regular essays featuring original thoughts, written, edited, and illustrated by human beings.

Paid Subcription Benefits

• The satisfaction of paying a working writer and helping me pay others.
• Occasional extras: recipes, book reviews, how-to's.
• My gratitude!

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About Kate Cohen

Author of "We of Little Faith," former Washington Post columnist.