Archive - Postcards From Barsoom

The Class of 2026

AI is doing to the universities what Gutenberg did to the monasteries

Jun 10 •

May 2025

Do You Think You’re Better Than Me?

May 28 •

The Left Turns Right

What are we to make of the Anglosphere political leadership’s abrupt narrative reversal towards immigration restrictionism and rhetorical nativism?

May 18 •

Word of Power Levels of the Rising Sun

Japan taught me racism in the nicest possible way

May 15 •

Monster Podcast Update

Mutant frogs with chainsaws, the Ukrainadian election, xenopolitics, the Word of Power, and influencer warlords

May 13 •

Food For The Moon

We should take care that we do not escape the bonds of the Earth only to forge the bars of a cage

May 5 •

Stripping the Word of its Power

Language taboos die when people stop being afraid of them

May 2 •

April 2025

Post-Mortem for the Canadian Election

And a post-mortem for Canada?

Apr 29 •

And Then There Were Two?

Did we just find the second planetary biosphere?

Apr 18 •

Roughly Translated From the Original Martian

A guide to the third year on Barsoom

Apr 10 •

Your Questions Answered

Digital nomad hordes! The engineer-hero returns! The future of academia! Political realignment! Alien invasions! And do I believe in God? Like beer…

Apr 5 •

The Ghosts of Tieros Kol

Doomed romance in a savage planetary garden.

Apr 2 •

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