Project for Two Americas: An Email Exchange

It is June 2035 and twelve days into the 60-day public comment window on “Project for Two Americas”—a two-track blueprint being negotiated by the U.S.

Oct 9 • 

Theral Timpson

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I Went to See Cancer Cells and Found Kant and Locke Debating

As on many days in my time as a science journalist, I found myself yesterday afternoon in a glass-walled laboratory at MIT, where the hum of sequencers…

Oct 2 • 

Theral Timpson

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September 2025

Kant, Kirk, and the Cross: The Oxford Union Debates Christian Nationalism

The Oxford Union Debate: “This House Believes Christian Nationalism Does Not Exist”

Sep 26 • 

Theral Timpson

The Philosophy of Family Estrangement

Scene: Outside the Atheneum at Caltech University, mid autumn.

Sep 16 • 

Theral Timpson

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August 2025

The Gospel According to St. Tom

Eli:I read a headline this morning—some congressman in Texas wants to “reconsider the doctrine of separation of church and state.” He says it’s “not in…

Aug 30 • 

Theral Timpson

When Bacon Meets Plato

Some friendships begin with random circumstance, others with similar temperament. I once met a friend who had posted in the classifieds that he was…

Aug 24 • 

Theral Timpson

Three Weeks in San Francisco

He props himself up on one elbow.“ You know, you have a habit of interrupting me just when I’m about to sound profound.” She traces a line along his…

Aug 10 • 

Theral Timpson

Nightly Under Night's Underside . . .

Nightly under night’s underside

Aug 3 • 

Theral Timpson

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July 2025

Journal Entry Fourteen Sixty Four Dash O Five Six

Setting: A narrow path winding up into golden hills above San Jose speckled with late-summer scrub.

Jul 18 • 

Theral Timpson

The Church of Assumption

Because they said we must be paired—two by two, like scared animals before the great ark of resplendent joy—but I stood alone at the threshold,not…

Jul 11 • 

Theral Timpson

June 2025

I Am Here. Where Are You?

Out under the summer stars,

Jun 27 • 

Theral Timpson

Haunted by Each Other?

A back patio at dusk. Aaron:You keep saying conservatives use logic as well as progressives. But I don’t see it. Conservatives are the continual…

Jun 20 • 

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