Writing

ARTS & LETTERS

My writing often spills out during times of change—joyous, sad, ambivalent. Sometimes it's an essay, other times a poem. If something resonates with you, good or bad, I hope you'll let me know.

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Karma and the Curse of the Cogniscenti

Recent political events fuel my desire to understand the cultural divide that threatens to destabilize our country indelibly. And so I turned to Charles Murray’s prophetic 2012 book, Coming Apart, which suggests that our current political climate was ignited, in significant part, by a growing cultural disconnect between the “cognitive elite” and the rest of the country.

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