Archive - As Is

The Return of Mental Health as Capacity

RaQuel Hopkins’s viral rise may reveal a public craving for strength over fragility.

Jun 10 •

April 2025

Argue Like You Care

We’re not just losing the skill to engage—we’re losing the will. But hope is not entirely lost.

Apr 25 •

March 2025

Kids Deserve More Honesty

Being completely honest with kids is not only doable, it's often what they want and need

Mar 12 •

February 2025

The False Binary of the DEI Debate

The absolutist narratives that paint DEI as all good or all bad fuel culture wars and highly dysfunctional discourse.

Feb 24 •

Lessons Unlearned

Why unchecked certainty is a losing strategy.

Feb 12 •

January 2025

Equity Efforts Need More Social Science, Not Less

The growing trend of referring to methods of social science as intellectual tools of the oppressor disempowers the disadvantaged and acts as a hindrance…

Jan 24 •

Launching My Substack

You're invited for the ride.

Jan 8 •

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