Society is progressing, realizing our language matters. And we are (rightly) stripping gender from titles, names Adopting a more inclusive approach. They are police officers, mail carriers, Congress people, because they are not exclusively male, not nearly. Paying homage to the fight for equity lives within our lexicon, starts with our syntax. But. I wouldContinueContinue reading “Equality”
Author Archives: Raz
History in the Future: Reflections on Present Day
It’s hard to imagine that a history class in the next century wouldn’t look back on this generation with some disdain for our apathy.
Netflix’s “Maid” appeals to the Entire Human Demographic
Since finishing the Netflix series “Maid,” I’ve told many of my peers that it was too good to put into words. This, of course, is literary laziness, my cop-out strategy when I struggle to articulate something cleanly. In “Maid” I encountered something so removed from my experience and yet so relatable. “Maid” is more deservingContinueContinue reading “Netflix’s “Maid” appeals to the Entire Human Demographic”
The Retirement Fund Revolutionary
I’m a perpetuator of the very system I seek to dismantle.
Short Stories: Wakeup Call on a Red Eye
Sometimes, things don’t work out the way we want them to.
Protection
Yes, I want to protect you from the world, but I also want to protect the world from you.
Of Goliaths and Genocide
The economics of emotional capital
Ken
I found myself uncomfortable in the topic and yet somehow so comfortable around this stranger.
One Thousand Four Hundred Sixty-One Days
There’s much more to voting than casting your ballot.
What if the president really is a very stable genus?
Early in the morning on January 6, 2018, the president took to the new era bully pulpit, Twitter, to defend his mental stability. In an infamous tweetstorm, one which coined a future book title, he proudly labeled himself, among other things, “a very stable genius.” Like many of his tweets it was met with wide-rangingContinueContinue reading “What if the president really is a very stable genus?”