View from my South Arlington apartment: smokey!
Chris Abraham
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Smokin!
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Corn Dogs and Kale
Why black box theater dies of exposure the moment you sell it a Broadway house open.substack.com/pub/chris…
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The Kiddie Pool Question
Why the “how could God allow it” trilemma smuggles in a premise the Bible never accepted open.substack.com/pub/chris…
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Your Father Is Not Your Genie
On God, prayer, and why “no” was never proof He doesn’t love you open.substack.com/pub/chris…
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A Stampede of Rightness
Why “right” means two different things to two different Americas, and why nobody notices until the argument stalls out. open.substack.com/pub/chris…
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I have a Substack superfan in the form of a cat named Twig
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Not a Manhunt The bad hombre lie, the ladder that only sees motion, and why “never waste a crisis” cuts both ways. chrisabraham.substack.com/p/not-a-m…
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Proportional
The math says school is safe. The culture says otherwise. open.substack.com/pub/chris…
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Perspective: What the seventies can teach us about how safe 2026 actually is open.substack.com/pub/chris…
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Clear Skies Only: Everyone quotes the first two lines of the Serenity Prayer. The entire thing runs on the third. chrisabraham.substack.com/p/clear-s…
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Hubristic Pity: The Compassion of Status-Seekers: Noblesse oblige needs a noble and an oblige. The neo-nobility kept the first word and dropped the second. chrisabraham.substack.com/p/hubrist…
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Lupita Nyong’o is easily more than beautiful enough to be Helen of Troy.
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The Making an Example Of Deterrence was never supposed to be universal. That’s what makes it work. chrisabraham.substack.com/p/the-mak…
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The Camera Doesn’t Take Sides, But It Isn’t Blind Either Total transparency ended every performance at once. It just didn’t end them equally. chrisabraham.substack.com/p/the-cam…
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“But Nobody Gave Me the Instruction Manual!” The rulebook is real, unwritten, and enforced against you whether you ever saw it or not chrisabraham.substack.com/p/nobody-…
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The Sporting Fallacy
Why “it was good while it lasted” beats “no way, piggy” every single time. open.substack.com/pub/chris…
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How did I miss this banger?
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The Right has always loved the star spangled banner and “white supremacy” has expanded to every flag-lover
“…there is a section of this country that has co-opted the American flag and they equate being an American or an American flag with white supremacy…” www.irishstar.com/culture/e…