Dispatches

Writing.

Essays from the wire closet, the council meeting, and the kitchen table. No paywalls. No comments.

• July 2026

  The Whole Earth Catalog for Jews

  In 1973, a small group of editors dedicated a reference book to a house. Not a synagogue, not a seminary, not a foundation. An old rambling yellow house in Somerville,…

• June 2026

  The Women’s Movement Already Solved This, and Nobody Listened

  The Women’s Movement Already Solved This, and Nobody Listened Jo Freeman gave the talk that became “The Tyranny of Structurelessness” at a conference in Beulah, Mississippi in May 1970, and…