Identifying the meta-metanarrative. In the weeks since writing Part I of Surviving Metamodernism, the world has changed. Like many Americans, I was first ambivalent about Donald J. Trump’s second impeachment and then riveted by the House impeachment managers’ performance. The slick presentations, supercut videos, and tweet-sized recriminations led the media…

“For everyone else, it would resemble mind control.” Last week, I mentioned metamodernism in my letter encapsulating the 30+ 2020 Year in Review reports. Metamodernism is incredibly dangerous because of its authentic power, its disregard for the norms of previous epochs and the velocity with which it accelerates change. It…

5 Essential Steps to Rehabilitate a Disgraced Public Figure — There are the true to life examples of the international businessman accused of embezzlement and dodging his taxes; the religious leader accused of assault; and the politician who unwittingly presented the inaccurate evidence that started a twenty-year war in which thousands perished. …