Carter: estimated IQ around 145. Nuclear physics at Annapolis, one of the sharpest technical minds ever to occupy the Oval Office. Clinton: around 155—Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, Yale Law, a political mind so quick it bordered on unfair. Obama: around 130, President of the Harvard …
Chris Abraham
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This would matter if America valued pedigree or academic prowess at all anymore.
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The populist right and the populist left are eating the center alive on both sides of the Atlantic. I’ve been watching this coming from my window. Pull up a chair. open.substack.com/pub/chris…
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Starmer is getting eaten from the right by Reform and the left by the Greens simultaneously. That’s not a political crisis. That’s the horseshoe closing. www.gisreportsonline.com/r/liberal…
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The White Face of Black Supremacy: The Black Panthers were Black power. Leonard Bernstein was blackface. chrisabraham.substack.com/p/the-whi…
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The Lorax speaks for the trees. The trees didn’t ask him to. This is the story of who gets to wear whose face, who gets to speak for whom, and what happens when the trees start talking for themselves. open.substack.com/pub/chris…
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I never think about wasting electricity. But living in England and Germany I learned fast—leaving a light on meant neighbors knocking, assuming you were home. Electricity wasn't cheap. It was a bill that bit. Is it still like that?
I never think about wasting electricity. Lights on all night, AC running all day, every device in the apartment doing its thing—it doesn’t register as a real cost the way food or rent does. That’s an American relationship with electricity and I didn’t know it …
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I never think about wasting electricity. But living in England and Germany I learned fast—leaving a light on meant neighbors knocking, assuming you were home. Electricity wasn’t cheap. It was a bill that bit. Is it still like that?
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Nobody Is Coming: What Europeans Can’t Understand About America, and Why They Never Will chrisabraham.substack.com/p/nobody-…
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The Revolution Will Not Be By the Proletariat: The left didn’t lose the working class. It looked at them, decided they were problematic, and went shopping for a replacement. chrisabraham.substack.com/p/the-rev…
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Two Buddhas Walk Into a Hellscape: On Tom Waits, the Buddha who walked out of the palace, and why the apocalypse requires better bookkeeping. chrisabraham.substack.com/p/two-bud…
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Don’t Tell That to the Stupids: The left runs two tracks: what they actually know and what they’ll say publicly. The gap between them isn’t incompetence–it’s policy. They’ve decided you can’t handle the full picture. chrisabraham.substack.com/p/dont-te…
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Les Misérables Doesn’t End at the Barricade: Everyone planned for the climax. Nobody planned for the denouement. The soldiers didn’t even remember it the next day. chrisabraham.substack.com/p/les-mis…
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Broken Brag: Why the war stories always eat the meeting chrisabraham.substack.com/p/broken-…
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Might Makes Right, and Other Things Nobody Will Say at the University in Bamberg: I spent the morning on Threads getting lectured by a German about American imperialism. chrisabraham.substack.com/p/might-m…
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The Disease That Saves You: Ishmael Reed, Jes Grew, and the Professor Who Changed Everything: For Winston Napier (1953–2008) chrisabraham.substack.com/p/the-dis…
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Both Men and Women Are Afraid of Men: Everyone already knew this: Why the bear debate was never about bears. chrisabraham.substack.com/p/both-me…
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I Prefer Not To: Bartleby Was Always the Point: Herman Melville wrote the defining portrait of our generational moment in 1853. Nobody’s been paying attention. And so it goes. chrisabraham.substack.com/p/i-prefe…
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How Al Gore Learned to Blot Out the Moon: How predictable cycles become manufactured fear—and why the real risks aren’t in the sky but in the systems we depend on. chrisabraham.substack.com/p/the-alm…
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Auntie Jesus: Notes from a Fat, Undisciplined, Aphantasic Friend of Bill Who Runs Five Gospel Podcasts and Alex Jones in the Same Queue chrisabraham.substack.com/p/auntie-…