The Making an Example Of Deterrence was never supposed to be universal. That’s what makes it work. chrisabraham.substack.com/p/the-mak…
The Camera Doesn’t Take Sides, But It Isn’t Blind Either Total transparency ended every performance at once. It just didn’t end them equally. chrisabraham.substack.com/p/the-cam…
“But Nobody Gave Me the Instruction Manual!” The rulebook is real, unwritten, and enforced against you whether you ever saw it or not chrisabraham.substack.com/p/nobody-…
The Sporting Fallacy
Why “it was good while it lasted” beats “no way, piggy” every single time. open.substack.com/pub/chris…
The Right has always loved the star spangled banner and “white supremacy” has expanded to every flag-lover
“…there is a section of this country that has co-opted the American flag and they equate being an American or an American flag with white supremacy…” www.irishstar.com/culture/e…
The Barbecue Always Wins
How the 250th slipped out of NPR’s hands, and why nobody but me seems to have wanted it there in the first place open.substack.com/pub/chris…
The Envy Machine
Why the crab bucket always wins, and why nobody escapes it by flattening the bucket open.substack.com/pub/chris…
So good. Reality is basically SETI@Home
The Basement: Danny Goler | The Laser Experiment and the Code Inside pca.st/episode/7…
Glad America doesn’t have a glass jaw
The 4th of July stress test wasn’t about violence. It was about whether the First Amendment still has teeth. open.substack.com/pub/chris…
Waka waka I guess the SPLC spent quite a lot of it’s members' donations on white supremacists today! Waka waka ;) www.politico.com/news/2026…
Whimsy Beats Hypergamy
On looksmaxxing, mogging, and why being someone’s ride or die beats being anyone’s stat sheet open.substack.com/pub/chris…
I feel like MAGA has disavowed Donald Trump après Iran attacks. Only neocons and America First zealots support the President now—and for months.
The Nail That Stands
What a Honolulu hallway taught me about every hierarchy I’ve stood inside since open.substack.com/pub/chris…
I’m in Northern Virginia—sexy South Arlington—and can see DCA from my window. All I’ve heard, though my closed windows and blaring AC, all morning, is the roar and boom of fighterjets—I assume celebrating America’s 250th here in the Nation’s Capital.
I Hear America Singing by Walt Whitman
I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear, Those of mechanics, each one singing his as it should be blithe and strong, The carpenter singing his as he measures his plank or beam, The mason singing his as he makes ready for work, or leaves off work, The boatman singing what belongs to him in his boat, the deckhand singing on the steamboat deck, The shoemaker singing as he sits on his bench, the hatter singing as he stands, The wood-cutter’s song, the ploughboy’s on his way in the morning, or at noon intermission or at sundown, The delicious singing of the mother, or of the young wife at work, or of the girl sewing or washing, Each singing what belongs to him or her and to none else, The day what belongs to the day—at night the party of young fellows, robust, friendly, Singing with open mouths their strong melodious songs.