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It’s Not a Revival
Vibe shifts aren’t measurable until they’re not important.
Oct 17
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James Taylor Foreman
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What to do about IQ
How I learned to stop worrying and love the test.
Oct 10
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James Taylor Foreman
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Small Talk Is King
I don’t want to talk about my feelings.
Oct 3
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James Taylor Foreman
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September 2026
Un-Shrinking Your Head
Man does not live by compression alone.
Sep 26
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James Taylor Foreman
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Slop Suggests the Existence of Its Opposite
LinkedIn Hell and other metaphysical realms.
Sep 19
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James Taylor Foreman
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The Telos of Cornhole
If your ideas are making you worse at sports, they’re the wrong ideas
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Sep 17
Only God Can Judge Me
What Americans most fundamentally believe.
Sep 15
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James Taylor Foreman
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Michael Levin’s Pragmatism Solves the Postmodern Problem
The biology of the gods.
Sep 12
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James Taylor Foreman
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To Believe Is Like To Go to Sleep
To all the times I couldn’t sleep.
Sep 8
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James Taylor Foreman
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A Genealogy of The Southern Surge
Why Southerners still kinda remember how to make kids learn.
Sep 5
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James Taylor Foreman
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August 2026
You Cannot Win a Culture War
Thinking careers are built by naming a fragment of a god and letting the reader think it can be beaten, but cannot.
Aug 29
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James Taylor Foreman
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America Is Coolness
The drive to be cool is the foundational contradiction of American consciousness. Once you notice it, you’ll see it everywhere.
Aug 22
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James Taylor Foreman
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