Brutal South

Your brain on chemtrails

There’s comfort in conspiracy theories as we live through the Anthropocene

Apr 4 • Paul Bowers

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March 2026

Wikifest 2026: Haldeman's Weirdest Day So Far

Discursive, self-indulgent, and inconsiderate of the audience’s time or interests, it’s everyone’s favorite Brutal South tradition: The exchange of rare…

Mar 25 • Paul Bowers

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September 2025

The sound of things falling apart

Listening to Basinski’s Disintegration Loops on 9/11/2025

Sep 12, 2025 • Paul Bowers

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April 2025

Rehearsals

‘The United States itself has never been exempt from fascism’

Apr 23, 2025 • Paul Bowers

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September 2024

Parenthood won’t fix you

Notes on cynical dadposting and the threat of creeping natalism

Sep 18, 2024 • Paul Bowers

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February 2024

The far side of the creek

On leaving church, leaving journalism, and never leaving home

Feb 17, 2024 • Paul Bowers

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June 2023

Seasons change

I’m pausing regular updates and taking a new job

Jun 26, 2023 • Paul Bowers

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Censors lose in the end

The speech police want to ban Ta-Nehisi Coates. We’ve got them outnumbered.

Jun 14, 2023 • Paul Bowers

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Restlessness at work

On Studs Terkel and what we do all day

Jun 7, 2023 • Paul Bowers

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Teacher workloads keep growing in South Carolina

Crises, austerity, and the erosion of a vital public good

Jun 1, 2023 • Paul Bowers

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May 2023

Reading Du Bois' Darkwater in dark times

Poems, sociology, sci-fi, and a memoir of a teacher

May 24, 2023 • Paul Bowers

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South Carolina: Buying poison, banning abortion, attacking teachers

Here are some grim updates from the Iodine State

May 17, 2023 • Paul Bowers

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