Escape Velocity
Mac GanderEssays and notes offering fresh perspectives on politics, society, and culture
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"The Long Emergency"
Sunset in Cabo Frio: This is what 2028 feels like to me
We’re on a flight to Porto this evening, and I wanted to post before I leave Brazil for a couple of months, in order to bring a sort of closure to the sequence of pieces I have been d...
Notes on Travel
On Friday my partner and I start a two-month sojourn in Porto, with a side trip to Spain and maybe to Cabo Verde if we feel ambitious, an escape from winter here and a chance for me to reset my creative energies. We made the plans last Octo...
Was This Piece Written By AI?
What crazy times these are—there’s so much I want to write about and since I like making connections I get bogged down and pieces get abandoned or restarted, like I’m working on this piece about Dems and factions and 2028, especially this D...
Iran Update, and Brazil's Pix Payment System
A Pix number next to a panhandler’s hat in Sao Paulo: Really free checking (credit: Tibisay Zea/The World)
We’re back at war again, and I’ll talk about that first, but I also want to focus on the news that Trump reimposed 25 percent tariff...
Politics and Crisis
Near Taos, NM: “the old is dying and the new cannot be born”
Since I wrote the first part of an essay about Democratic Party politics, focused on DSA victories in New York, I have been working on the meatier question of what some of the ma...
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Background in journalism, creative writing, college teaching, higher education administration. Trained ADHD and writing coach, certified Recovery Coach. Most of life spent in Manhattan or Vermont. Currently live in Brazil.
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