Optimist Press

I write about subjects ranging from the mystical and psychedelic to the political and mundane.

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Things falling apart.

Diagnosing a world in crisis while finding means and strategies for a better, realer, more human future.

Writing that zooms out.

This newsletter is dedicated to helping you decode the national conversation by exposing misinformation, disinformation, and bad actors.

A newsletter for big-picture thinking about autocracy and threats to democracy around the world

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