Imagine the opposite
By Ben Olson Reader Staff One of my favorite classes in college was Logic and Critical Thinking. In that course, I learned how to obtain a larger and more complete view of the world...
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‘Hey, Rube’
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff When I was a cub reporter at the Associated Press, stationed in the bowels of the pre-renovation Idaho Capitol, circa 2003, we had a CRT TV bolted to a...
The life of the author
By Soncirey Mitchell Reader Staff There are three books by Neil Gaiman on my shelves: Good Omens, American Gods and The Ocean at the End of the Lane. The sight of them, which used...
In praise of nuanced disagreement
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Among the many casualties of our present calamitous day is the quality of nuance. Power has a way of flattening the variability of ideas, regardless of whether that power...
On a powder day…
By Ben Olson Reader Staff On a powder day, nothing else really matters. It’s midweek and there are about five inches of fresh snow on the ground. The sun pokes through the ethereal haze...
The revolution will not be live-streamed
By Soncirey Mitchell Reader Staff Gen-Z has the kind of energy, passion, anger and morality that lights rebellions, and most have dreamed of overthrowing fascist governments since their first time reading The Hunger Games....
The art of the deal(ing) with it all
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff The first time Donald Trump assumed the presidency of the United States, I quit my job as editor of Boise Weekly, we sold our house on the Boise Bench...
A few thoughts… On learning to ski
By Sandy Compton Reader Staff Winter has finally arrived, though the frosting on my small forest looks more like December than January. Thankfully, the frosting is much thicker on our mountains. I’ve not had...
So dumb it squeaks
By Ben Olson Reader Staff I have an itinerant column I trot out every month or so I’ve dubbed “Dumb of the Week,” which highlights the sheer stupidity at work — usually by politicians....
Party pooping
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff The Reader has never published its own endorsements of candidates. The closest we’ve ever come to doing so was actually a dis-endorsement I wrote of Reader co-founder and editor-emeritus...
