Essays by Title

What follows is a list of all of my general essays written for The Practical Utopian, sorted by title. (Appreciations appear on a separate list).

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