Escape Velocity
Mac GanderEssays and notes offering fresh perspectives on politics, society, and culture
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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| Issues | 145 | Founded | 4 years ago | Last Issue | 6 days ago |
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Trump’s Stalingrad
My dad and me in 1973, building a stone wall : He gave me The Myth of Sisyphus to read a couple of years before and I have been reading it ever since
It is natural to be hopeful about Tuesday’s balloting in the states, and of course I’m ha...
Lula’s Angels and Other Notes on Brazil’s Election
The view from the front steps of my wife’s home in Oswaldo Cruz, the working class neighborhood where her mother lives and where I wrote this piece
No one expected Lula to win in the second round of voting in Brazil. He had lost the first...
Reflections on Cornell
Sometimes when I can’t think of art for a piece I just post a sunset from where I write in Cabo Frio
Back in Brazil, with a lull between the first round and second in the presidential sweepstakes, I’m struck by the way the Clancy story was...
A Sense of Decency
The lost idea of decency
A friend reminded me today of Joseph Welch’s iconic query to Joe McCarthey, “Have you at last no sense of decency, sir?” and I thought of how I first saw the footage in a middle school social studies class, back wh...
Reflection on October 7
When Hamas launched its terror raid on October 7, 2023, I was staying in a hostel in Porto, temporarily broke and between Airbnb apartments. The woman I loved was just a block away and she had put me up one night, but she had her own tight...
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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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