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Dash Lewis is a musician and writer who lives in Richmond, Virginia. He spends his free time in search of the great American sandwich. You can follow him on social media: @gardenerjams.
It just takes the right person, at the right time, to light the right spark and make what previously would have seemed impossible the law of the land. When I was a child, Somalia had a government. They might not have one again for the rest of my life.
November 2024Cities are social, so they have the same problems we do. The mistake we always make in our culture is thinking that cities are somehow separate from us and that if we conceive of the right design for them, they will magically relieve us of our problems. By investing this theoretical power in cities, we can avoid confronting the flaws in the way we have built the world: with inequality and oppression and systems that make some people’s lives miserable while other people’s lives are good.
February 2024I’m not talking about burning the system down. . . . I simply think that the things we can do to respond to climate change will also make the world a better place for most people.
June 2023Has something we published moved you? Fired you up? Did we miss the mark? We’d love to hear about it.
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