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Why I Wrote About the Last Holdouts of Zero COVID
Earlier this year, I wrote an essay for Jacobin about why young people should consider having a beer in public.
Nov 24 • 
Ryan Zickgraf
It's a Wonderful Write
An update from Zickgraf World
Nov 3 • 
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The 18th Anniversary of the Most Important Election of Our Lifetime
November 2004 was supposed to be the endgame of elections yet no one remembers it.
Nov 7, 2022 • 
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The Metaverse™ is dead. Long live the metaverse.
How Mark Zuckerberg's virtual playland helps disguise the fact that America already is the metaverse.
Oct 13, 2022 • 
Ryan Zickgraf
We can’t burn our way to a better Walmart
The case of the Veterans Order is more evidence that lone wolf vigilantism is a poor substitute for strategic battles against capital.
Mar 19, 2022 • 
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Riding the Third Rail
Here's what's in store for 2022.
Jan 10, 2022 • 
Ryan Zickgraf
The struggle for the history of class struggle
At a time when history is contested, some figures are more hidden than others.
Dec 7, 2021 • 
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Halloween is the canary in the coal mine of our civic decline
Trick-or-treating participation is a good measure of community and neighborhood trust. The 2021 numbers are bad.
Nov 1, 2021 • 
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