Latest Essays
What follows is a list of all of my general essays written for The Practical Utopian, with the most recent ones shown first. (Appreciations appear on a separate list).
- Five Takeaways from the First 2024 Presidential Debate · 28 Jun 2024
- Some Hard Truths About Human Population Growth · 25 Apr 2024
- Reflections on the Christian Message · 04 Dec 2023
- Managing Our Identity Stacks · 29 Sep 2023
- A Universal Improvement Process · 13 May 2023
- Keeping to the Cackle with AI · 31 Mar 2023
- The Four Essential Attributes of any Organization · 08 Feb 2023
- Schembechler, Bacon and Leadership · 06 Feb 2023
- Thank God for Elon Musk! · 17 Dec 2022
- Why Inflation Will be Hard to Contain · 12 Dec 2022
- The MAGA Bubble Finally Bursts · 13 Nov 2022
- An Overdue Update from The Practical Utopian · 10 Oct 2022
- We Are Multi-Tribal · 01 Aug 2022
- Thinking about Abortion(s) · 21 Jul 2022
- The Widening Spiral of Modern Society · 28 Jun 2022
- Popping the Hood with the Notenik App · 18 Jun 2022
- Playing with Language and "Settin' the Woods on Fire" · 23 May 2022
- Why Mandating 'X' Days a Week in the Office is a Stupid Idea · 11 May 2022
- Welcome To The Autonomous States of America · 04 May 2022
- Of Idiots and Autocrats · 22 Apr 2022
- Violence at the 94th Academy Awards · 29 Mar 2022
- Ukrainian Lives Matter · 26 Feb 2022
- The Issues Swirling around Spotify and its Content Providers · 09 Feb 2022
- Does the US Need a New, More Centrist, Political Party? · 31 Jan 2022
- Why Michigan’s 42–27 Victory over Ohio State Gives Me Hope for Humanity · 29 Nov 2021
- A Guide To Becoming · 22 Oct 2021
- Lessons to be Learned from the Fall of Afghanistan · 17 Aug 2021
- Why It's a Bad Time to be a Conservative · 21 Jul 2021
- Kindness by Design · 14 Jul 2021
- Are Political Parties Doing Us More Harm Than Good? · 25 Jun 2021
- Have Our Political Parties Turned Into Cults? · 31 May 2021
- Some Hard-Won Wisdom Concerning Cults · 27 May 2021
- Where, Exactly, Are the Republicans Headed? · 16 May 2021
- Leadership and Followership: 21 Key Observations · 06 May 2021
- Thinking Differently About Our Economy · 24 Apr 2021
- The Importance of Progressive Activism · 19 Apr 2021
- The Decline of the Republican Party - First Gradually and then Suddenly · 07 Apr 2021
- Free Speech at the Crossroads · 17 Feb 2021
- A Resumption of our Humanity · 21 Jan 2021
- The Big Truth · 17 Jan 2021
- The Clown Coup · 08 Jan 2021
- Life is Complicated · 26 Dec 2020
- What Christmas Means to Me · 21 Dec 2020
- Diving Back Into Our American Muddle · 21 Nov 2020
- Reframing our Debates about Capitalism · 12 Oct 2020
- The Era of Environmental Accommodation is Over · 14 Sep 2020
- The Shocking Truth About Us Liberals · 06 Sep 2020
- Undoing Trumpism · 04 Aug 2020
- Cooperation, Competition and Coercion · 17 Jul 2020
- The Progressive Path Forward - A 12-State Strategy · 29 Jun 2020
- Can the US Become a Truly Egalitarian Society? · 15 Jun 2020
- Democracy · 03 Jun 2020
- 8 Big Lessons We Can Learn from the Pandemic · 10 May 2020
- Why Do We Call It Capitalism? · 16 Apr 2020
- Core Design Principles for Teams · 09 Apr 2020
- Patterns of Human Cooperation · 27 Mar 2020
- Understanding Human History · 24 Mar 2020
- Why I Use Markdown (And Why You Should Too) · 25 Feb 2020
- What Trump Gets Right · 11 Feb 2020
- Dethroning the False God of User Experience Design · 27 Dec 2019
- My Prayer for a More Integral New Year · 17 Dec 2019
- The Personal vs. The Institutional · 01 Nov 2019
- The System is Working Very Well, Thank You · 25 Sep 2019
- Rejiggering Our Religion · 13 Aug 2019
- The Dangers of Political Nostalgia · 25 Jun 2019
- The Progressive Problem · 10 Jun 2019
- How to Fix Big Tech · 22 May 2019
- The Challenge for Democrats: Playing the Long Game · 25 Apr 2019
- The Devastating Tragedy of our Vanishing Middle Class · 15 Apr 2019
- Our Three Human Approaches to Dealing with Problems · 05 Mar 2019
- Citizen Kane vs. Citizen Bailey · 04 Mar 2019
- Science · 04 Mar 2019
- Is There Any Middle Left? · 18 Feb 2019
- Rebuilding Trust in Our Large Institutions · 11 Feb 2019
- Our American Class System · 27 Jan 2019
- More Love · 26 Jan 2019
- The Truth About Capitalism · 07 Jan 2019
- Have We Passed The Point of Maximum Useful Tech? · 17 Dec 2018
- The Value of Individuals · 10 Dec 2018
- Calling for a US Sustainability Initiative · 03 Dec 2018
- The Importance of Mission · 26 Nov 2018
- A Broadcast Consciousness · 19 Nov 2018
- The Written Word in the 21st Century · 12 Nov 2018
- My Advice to Young People of All Ages · 31 Oct 2018
- An Integral Approach · 26 Oct 2018
- Imperfection · 11 Oct 2018
- Our Societal Disconnect · 26 Sep 2018
- Why I Call Myself a Practopian · 15 Sep 2018
- Cultural Evolution · 13 Aug 2018
- What To Do About Big Business? · 02 Jul 2018
- Humanism and the Practical Utopian · 28 Jun 2018
- Evolution and Its Implications · 22 May 2018
- Talking Openly about Hierarchy · 13 Apr 2018
- A Traditional Remedy for the Facebook Problem: Competition · 05 Apr 2018
- A Practopian Approach to Gun Issues in the US · 27 Feb 2018
- Art and the Eye of the Beholder · 15 Nov 2017
- Help! Help! The Robots are Coming! · 23 Aug 2017
- In Defense of Balance · 12 Jun 2017
- How to Listen to Music · 12 Jan 2017
- Developmental Levels as Evolving Social Structures · 10 Jan 2016
- Religion, Storytelling and Art · 27 Nov 2014
- Human Nature · 15 Dec 2013
- The Four Quadrants of Human Knowledge · 26 Oct 2012
- Earned Value Management (EVM) for Mere Mortals · 08 Oct 2012
- Religious Freedom · 04 Aug 2012
- The Nature of God · 10 Mar 2012
- Reasons for Belief · 21 Feb 2012
- The Systemic Era · 15 Aug 2011
- Developmental Levels · 22 Oct 2009