We're Looking for an Illustrator. But That's Not Really What This Is About.

Know a Filipino illustrator whose hand belongs on a book like this? Send them this.

Jun 7 • Avi Penhollow

The Mountains Were Never Backwards

On what gets lost when a culture learns to look away from its highlands

Jun 2 • Avi Penhollow

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May 2026

Basketball Was Never Really About Basketball

What this book is actually about, and why we didn't write a sports book

May 29 • Avi Penhollow

The Infallibility Loop: How Big Media and Big Money Make a Drop of Rain Look Like a Tidal Wave

Unpacking the Fox News Endorsement Tracker: How politicians, networks, and billionaire PACs manufacture certainty out of messy realities.

May 28 • Avi Penhollow

My Wife's Language Is Not a Dialect

On why we make books in Ilocano — and what it cost us to understand why

May 25 • Avi Penhollow

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The Child Who Already Knows

On obsession, attention, and what Little Spark is actually about

May 25 • Avi Penhollow

He Was Two. He Was Right.

The story behind the title of Basketball & Pizza

May 25 • Avi Penhollow

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They’re Counting on You Forgetting

The Epstein files are an accountability test — and public memory is resistance.

May 7 • Avi Penhollow

NO KINGS Huh?

On Crowns, Constitutions, and the America That Never Was

May 1 • Avi Penhollow

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April 2026

Birthright for Me, Not for Thee

Citizenship, selective memory, and the politics of shrinking belonging

Apr 1 • Avi Penhollow

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February 2026

NOT AGAIN: Critical Patriotism is the Only Way to Make America Great.

As we approach the nation’s 250th anniversary, we have a choice about what kind of civic adulthood we want to inhabit.

Feb 24 • Avi Penhollow

The Board of Peace is a Jerk off

President Trump’s so-called “Board of Peace” isn’t diplomacy — it’s a public jerk-off session masquerading as statecraft.

Feb 19 • Avi Penhollow

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