Last weekend, my essay ran in the Startup, Medium's highest subscribing publication.

I had this article published in the Post on August 26, and it ran in the print edition on August 29. Following that, it got picked up by a few other papers including the Minneapolis Star-Tribune.

This essay of mine was in the online version of the Washington Post on May 8.

It also ran in San Antonio News-Express a few days later.

Watching The Killing of a Sacred Deer, the most recent movie by director and weird-master Yorgos Lanthimos, made me think of Kurt Andersen’s book Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire.

The movie is about a cardiologist who botches an operation because he’s drunk during...