The Right's favorite reactionary centrist prepares to take over a major news organization.| Both/And with Jay Michaelson
Welcome to our new subscriber-only series: Inflection Points.| jaymichaelson.substack.com
In 2025, catharsis takes a little more energy.| Both/And with Jay Michaelson
The practical, liberal, and ethical cases for not letting this story wither on the vine of short attention spans.| jaymichaelson.substack.com
It's not only the economy, stupid. Trump's high poll numbers point to a profound failure of both civic institutions and human psychology.| jaymichaelson.substack.com
David French is right, but he doesn’t go far enough| jaymichaelson.substack.com
Beautiful, tragic music for a melancholy, tragic summer| Both/And with Jay Michaelson
On better days, I conceive of the global rise in nationalist authoritarianism as an inevitable counter-movement in the dialectic of world history.| jaymichaelson.substack.com
Navigating our temporarily optional dystopia.| jaymichaelson.substack.com
A question I have wrestled with for thirty years and completely failed to answer.| jaymichaelson.substack.com
And that it's the other side's fault.| jaymichaelson.substack.com
Something feels off, doesn't it? Let's pay attention to that feeling.| jaymichaelson.substack.com
Authentic thanksgiving means holding both joy and pain, because human beings contain multitudes.| jaymichaelson.substack.com
On the utility (and limitations) of cultivating momentary peak experience flashbacks while at your kid's gym class. Plus some exciting career news.| jaymichaelson.substack.com
Actually, those years of practice really made a difference.| Both/And with Jay Michaelson
I'm a little surprised to be here.| Both/And with Jay Michaelson
When an authoritarian's minions deny the legitimacy of judges, it's not the same old Trump bullshit.| Both/And with Jay Michaelson
The new religious extremism behind the attacks on liberal society and higher education. Second in a series.| Both/And with Jay Michaelson
The release of a long-awaited study on psychedelics and religion ought to prompt new questions, not old cliches.| Both/And with Jay Michaelson
Don't fight the feeling that something is wrong. Get comfortable with it.| Both/And with Jay Michaelson
Right and Left live in different nomic countries.| Both/And with Jay Michaelson
The psychologies of complicity and resistance -- a parable for our times.| Both/And with Jay Michaelson
Decoding alleged MS-13 tattoo symbols is an exercise in prismatic hermeneutics| Both/And with Jay Michaelson
What happens when you accept that the worst might happen?| jaymichaelson.substack.com
The Three Phases of Constitutional Crisis, and How to Prepare for Them| jaymichaelson.substack.com
On Trad-Cath, Tech-Fash, and the Vice of Weird Arrogance| jaymichaelson.substack.com
What MAGA really thinks about immigrants, and why they have to lie about it so much| jaymichaelson.substack.com
Which I found perversely comforting.| jaymichaelson.substack.com
What's dangerous today isn't woke ideology, trans people, or immigration. It's the tolerance for violence, vulgarity, and sheer meanness of spirit.| jaymichaelson.substack.com
On the ethics and politics of a candidate's cognitive decline -- plus playlist notes| jaymichaelson.substack.com
Is human nature up to the challenges of the 21st century? I'm not sure.| jaymichaelson.substack.com
Because making the darkness visible is better than the alternative| jaymichaelson.substack.com
And why this is not a rhetorical question.| jaymichaelson.substack.com
Don't be deceived by carnival hucksterism. The Trump Train is already derailing.| jaymichaelson.substack.com
Progressives need to reclaim the language of faith for moral clarity, effective communication, and solace.| jaymichaelson.substack.com
Not anger, not anxiety, but something more intimate and more generative.| jaymichaelson.substack.com
AI, Climate Shock, Extreme Politics, and Other Baffling Points of Inflection| jaymichaelson.substack.com
Hey there, how are you doing?| jaymichaelson.substack.com
On the occasionally divergent goals of personal happiness, collective change, and spiritual realization. (A news-diet safe post.)| jaymichaelson.substack.com
When people are feeling devalued or adrift, their instincts can be exploited by the powerful.| jaymichaelson.substack.com
It's counterproductive to deny that things look bad for America right now. But you can turn the shit into fertilizer.| jaymichaelson.substack.com
Certainty, belief, and the durable lamination of love and God.| jaymichaelson.substack.com
Thoughts on the small surge of interest in jhana meditation, once a thing that only I and a few other people cared about.| jaymichaelson.substack.com
And it's weird that a lot of people don't perceive the same threats.| jaymichaelson.substack.com
A short guided meditation that doesn't make things better, but provides a short and restorative break from them.| jaymichaelson.substack.com
Time to take on "Trump amnesia" for real.| jaymichaelson.substack.com
Like it or not, the economy is the top concern of American voters as we approach the election. But it's not about numbers and graphs.| jaymichaelson.substack.com
The favorite drug of toxic dudes, terrified parents, and the loudest protesters on the lawn.| jaymichaelson.substack.com
Human beings thirst for meaning and order, but there are better ways to get them than from old-time religion.| jaymichaelson.substack.com
And it's not helping you make things better.| jaymichaelson.substack.com
How partisans on both sides have lost their moorings.| jaymichaelson.substack.com
Or should we not worry about it that much?| jaymichaelson.substack.com
Climate news is so dull, even Joe Biden doesn't want you to hear about it.| jaymichaelson.substack.com
Everything about this image is fake.| jaymichaelson.substack.com
And not only of the end of the world.| jaymichaelson.substack.com
