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  • The MAGA movement’s wholesale attack on democratic institutions has not spared colleges and universities. Using the pretext of rampant anti-Semitism on campuses in the wake of Israel’s attack on Gaza, Trump’s Departments of Justice and Education have made decisive moves…

    Harvard’s Obsequious Initiative: Caving to Autocracy
  • Imagine you’re standing in an American forest circa 1700. How different do you think it would be from any given forest you might visit in 2026? The answer is – in most cases – wildly different. Living things operating on…

    Alarming Auguries for the Ash
  • Sincerest apologies for the cheeky title of this article – I am bone tired, and in need of caffeine. How ill-opportune a time to undertake a heady exercise such as this: today I will consider the dramatic tension at the…

    But Faust, Coffee
  • Is there a place for poetry centered on the morose in the 2026? The world it seems is in a state of decay. We’re rapidly approaching the climate reckoning that will usher in plagues and famines, economic collapse and mass…

    Graveyard Poets
  • I have a proclivity for ten-dollar words (which you could say renders me either a sesquipedalian or prone to grandiloquence). Hear me out: I love language and want to have a wide range of sounds and forms in my arsenal…

    Linguistic Limits: On the Loss of Verbiage Over Time
  • POET / NATURALIST / PHOTOGRAPHER

    JACE PAUL
  • Del Griffith and Jean-Paul Sartre make their way home for Thanksgiving.

    Planes, Trains, and Nausea
  • Recently, my daughter asked me if I believed in heaven. “Well,” I said, carefully choosing my words, “there’s very little evidence to suggest that life or consciousness persists after death. To date, no one who’s died has come back to…

    Live for Reason & Compassion: A Letter to My Daughter
  • An alternate take of my previous photograph. The foolishness of expectations. Let go of them and embrace the radical wisdom of detachment. We should not labor in the field of struggle, but accept the indifference of the universe and the…

    The Endurance of Memory
  • Who ever thought human beings were a good idea? – Jace Paul, 2020

    The Persistence of Loss