The Ethnic Aisle: Why We Flatten Other People’s Cultures — and Refuse to Let Anyone Flatten Ours

We compress distant cultures into one word and bristle when anyone does it to us. A look at resolution asymmetry — why it happens, when it’s harmless, and when it isn’t.

Who Gets to Be Called a Luddite? The History We Got Backwards

The Luddites are history’s favorite punchline for anyone who fears progress. But they never opposed machines — and the people who actually killed good technology were rarely holding a hammer. A deep dive into the smearing of a movement and the far quieter sabotage that followed.

The AI Slop Panic Is Hiding Something: We Already Let Machines Choose What We Consume

We recoil at AI-generated content while happily consuming whatever an algorithm serves us. This deep dive examines the hypocrisy in our performed disgust, why “human or machine?” is the wrong question, and what a more honest relationship with content actually looks like.

The Boring People Built Everything: Why We Stopped Celebrating Scientists, Poets, and Teachers

Scientists, poets, and teachers were once public heroes. Now they’re invisible. A deep dive into what actually changed — and what to honestly tell a young person.

The Brand Called You: When Who You Are Started Beating What You Do

There was a moment when who you are started mattering more than how good you are. Here’s what changed, what we gained, and the quiet bill now coming due.

The Superstar Machine: How Fame Really Gets Made (It’s Not Luck, and It’s Not a Conspiracy)

Fame isn’t random luck or a shadowy conspiracy — it’s a business model. A deep dive into superstar economics, the algorithm, and the dopamine lottery that keeps us all playing.

Do I Have to Be a Full-Time Writer to Call Myself a Writer?

You don’t need to quit everything to be a writer. A warm, dryly funny journal entry on the day job, the starving artist myth, and why “give up all else” is the worst advice in the arts.

Dead Silence: Why Dismissal Hurts Writers More Than Criticism

Criticism at least means someone read you. Dismissal means they pretended you never wrote a word. A witty, tender look at the silence that wounds worse than any bad review — and how to grow a skin for it.

Why I Keep Writing When Almost No One Reads My Work

A soul-searching, wryly honest look at why a writer keeps going when the audience is small, the sales are smaller, and the answer was never really in doubt. On ambition, obscurity, and what a reader is actually worth.

Does Poetry Matter Anymore? Finding Meaning in a Fast-Paced World

Is poetry dead, or has it just changed its address? Join the Editor-in-Chief of English Plus Magazine as we explore why poetry still matters, the power of words, and how to find deeper meaning in a world of fleeting trends.

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