It’s Memorial Day again. I’ve been back in Pittsburgh now for three years.
Fig. 1. Reproduction of poster, via Relational Implicit, “Understanding social myth: Why it’s so hard to find common ground & how to do it,” September 2020, fair use.
It has been good that I moved here. I needed to break out of the San Francisco Bay Area bubble, needed to witness the rise of white Christian nationalism—now as conservatism becomes increasingly monolithic and a far more potent force even than when Donald Trump was in office[1]—from a different perspective. Read more
- [1]David Benfell, “My 2024 forecast,” Not Housebroken, May 25, 2022, https://disunitedstates.org/2022/03/10/my-2024-forecast/↩