Adorable and Harmless

By most measures, the coding agent that now writes the vast majority of lines of code I produce at my job is already much smarter than I am.

A year ago I didn’t know anything in particular about the Lincoln memorial reflecting pool and neither did you.

After a strong second-place election night performance, LA mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt is now projected to finish in third place behind incumbent Karen Bass and far-left challenger Nithya Raman, meaning he won’t advance to the general election.

It’s that wonderful time of year in the northern latitudes when we have all the daylight we could possibly want and more.

As a child I believed in God with the effortless sincerity of all children.

In the early 2010s a polyamory fad swept through my social scene like crack through a black ghetto.

This is my entry into the Boyd Institute’s essay contest on how America can improve its problem-solving capacity.

Let the record state that I love Scott Alexander.

One of my kids came home from school the other day irritated by one of their peers.

At 27 I had already noticed my decline.

Winners and Losers by Sidney J.

One of the most remarkable and disturbing aspects of the ICE confrontation videos coming out is the prevalence of women physically engaging law enforcement, especially given their clear belief that they will not come to harm by obstructing and outright at…

Happy New Year.

Thank you to the many loyal readers who drew my attention to The Great Feminization by Helen Andrews, published in October in Compact.

Winners and Losers by Sidney J.

Publication note 12/3/2025: This essay was my entry into the Boyd Institute’s housing policy essay contest, where it won an honorarium.

Winners and Losers by Sidney J.

We live in an age of wonders.

Winners and Losers by Sidney J.

Winners and Losers by Sidney J.