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A.R. Moxon
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A.R. Moxon (he/him) is author of the novel THE REVISIONARIES and the fiction podcast SUGAR MAPLE. His newsletter is The Reframe: https://armoxon.substack.com/ He can climb trees, but chooses not to, recognizing that trees do not attempt to climb him.
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I wrote about Mitt Romney, American fascists, and how "echo chambers" are found not in giving persuadable minds new language to understand known truths, but rather in endlessly predictable repetitive arguments about observable truths with unpersuadable people. I wrote about a doorway to a different future that once seemed open, a grim anniversary of the event that seemed to close the door, those who did the closing, some things we ought to Never Forget and all the things we are urged to Never Remember. I wrote about a murder in the state where "'woke' goes to die," the people who want to be held innocent of making such things inevitable while insisting we persuade them to stop; about rules of engagement w/supremacists and what it means to find "common ground." When I look at the video of a clearly struggling Mitch McConnell, I think about how scary and difficult that must be, and how hard McConnell has worked throughout his life to ensure that the end of people's lives are as difficult and scary a struggle as they can possibly be made. If You Want To Be Friends, Why Aren't You Friendly?
I wrote about the common centrist lament, that so many of us refuse to be friends with conservatives over "political views." Which suggests that conservatives want to be friends with us. It's a shock. I hadn't realized. Polarization And Strife
When I was a child, they let us out of the classroom twice a day as I recall. It was a long time ago. It was the olden days: the eighties. The nineteen eighties. I do remember one recess game that was Both Sides, Part 1: Name The Two Sides
I think as I move over my newsletter archive from Revue to Substack, I'll post them here. ___ Let me propose another way of thinking of “both sides.” Here goes: On one side, there are the people who are d The Reframe on Substack
My newsletter is The Reframe. It was on Revue, but Revue is getting musked in January. It's on Substack now. Archives moving. Subscribers already moved. There is a Pay-What-You-Want Members Version, wit HORTON HARMS A WHOM
While Horton the elephant bathed in a pool In the heat of the day, enjoying the cool, He heard with his ears, which were large and acute A very small voice, high and bright, like a flute. “Excuse me,” it The Respectable Game
The novelist and Bokononist spiritual teacher Kurt Vonnegut once wrote a story called “All The King’s Horses,” about a man, captured in war, forced by a dictator to play chess for his freedom. The dic The Supreme Problem
Say your name is Joe but I insist your name is Jean. Let’s say you believe your name is Joe because that’s your name. Let’s say I insist your name is Jean because I believe I have the right to name you Never exonerate malice simply because it is also stupid. The Vineyard And The Mountain
Good morning. The leader of the Republican Party and presumptive 2024 nominee is Donald Trump, believe it or not. This week he met with Nick Fuentes, who is a literal proud and open Nazi, for a strate Introduction
I think the thing to do right now is an #introduction so here goes: I'm a writer whose debut novel "The Revisionaries" was published in late 2019, and was dubbed "the weirdest novel of the year" by the