Archive - Brutal South

Parenthood won’t fix you

Notes on cynical dadposting and the threat of creeping natalism

Sep 18 •

February 2024

The far side of the creek

On leaving church, leaving journalism, and never leaving home

Feb 17 •

June 2023

I’m pausing regular updates and taking a new job

Jun 26, 2023 •

Censors lose in the end

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

Jun 14, 2023 •

Restlessness at work

On Studs Terkel and what we do all day

Jun 7, 2023 •

Teacher workloads keep growing in South Carolina

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

Jun 1, 2023 •

May 2023

Reading Du Bois' Darkwater in dark times

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

May 24, 2023 •

South Carolina: Buying poison, banning abortion, attacking teachers

Here are some grim updates from the Iodine State

May 17, 2023 •

Big Grocery is watching me

I requested my customer data from Food Lion and got some weird results

May 10, 2023 •

Against teacher censorship

This should go without saying, but apparently it needs saying

May 4, 2023 •

A magic kingdom that never was

Tracking down the rumor that Disney World scoped out Santee, S.C., as a building site

May 3, 2023 •

April 2023

Public records are my passion. They can be yours too.

Sometimes you gotta go FOIA mode

Apr 27, 2023 •

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