OnlySky
Rational thought for irrational times. Shape a future based on reality, compassion, and secular courage
MAGA and the questionable judgment of history
Even on the rosy assumption that this era ends, we will never see the return to relative consensus that was once possible.
How can we get a warning to the distant future?
Can we design warnings that last as long as the mortal dangers we create?
The coming dark age of stupidity
The future is not so bright.
Dissent and the power of two
The urge to conform is enormous. The presence of one other dissenter is often all it takes to resist.
Are we at the end of a narcissism epidemic?
Is the future less self-centered?
A survival bunker for civilization
In the event of a catastrophic agricultural plague, a vault of seeds slumbering in Arctic permafrost could bring us back from the brink.
When it’s hell on the surface, it’s time to go deep
The perspective is out there.
Severance and the divided American self
The analogy to our societal fracture cuts to the bone.
Suffering is optional
Those with the power to address the problem on a meaningful scale have other priorities.
The standing artillery of Atlanta
Most US cities have their house of cards. This is ours.
Of God and global warming: The future of faith and atheism
Our species hasn’t put in the work needed for religion to fade away.
Unchecked and unbalanced: The Constitution’s Achilles heel
An unforeseen partisan flaw threatens America's secular democracy.
