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