Making Babies At The Twilight Of The Empire

Thinking about the world my son will inherit.

Bringing a baby into the world always brings the context of "what kind of world" much closer. 

After a year where the pandemic's stress test made it clear that we are both in steep institutional decline and the impotent subjects of an increasingly powerful oligarchy backed by technology and a poisonous religious schism - I'm invariably led to some long a…