Field Notes

Perhaps you’ve seen the bumper stickers that became popular during the covid lockdowns and mask mandates, pulling a famous line from the preamble to the Constitution, the sticker read: “We the people...are pissed off.” That turn of phrase pulls on some very American threads—the consent of the governed—government by the people, for the people—ideas that are core to the American identity and to our conception of our system of governance. Our recent brush with government overrea

The Techno-Resistance There is a growing trend of techno-resistance among Millennials and Gen Z. Analog is making a comeback, and low-tech living is being branded as the real self-care. From Jonathan Haidt’s The Anxious Generation to Cal Newport’s Digital Minimalism and Mary Harrington’s Feminism Against Progress, a chorus of voices is warning against our unthinking embrace of new technologies without reckoning with their costs. Brass Tacks: Anyone paying attention has notice

In the last decade we’ve all noticed a change in the sociopolitical landscape. To some it feels like a long-overdue return to sanity as...