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The Meteor Magazine
My name is Julia Schiwal, and I run The Meteor Magazine.
This blog and aspiring magazine is named for the meteor that seems to have hit us. The meteor is many things. The meteor is the failure of meritocracy to deliver good American government. The meteor is the tendency towards fragmentation and suppression. The meteor is everything getting worse, every day, always. The meteor is not one thing.
Meteors form over tens of thousands of years as lone particles of iron, rock, and ice collide until, someday, they become one vast and unstoppable mass. They have a path determined long ago by gravity, accident, and chance. We live in the great wake of a meteor: in the crater of decline. We are surrounded by the still-burning pines of the Tunguska forest. The meteor is every big and little failure, catastrophe, and scandal that has eviscerated state competence and culture, making the good life impossible.
Unlike writing on Substack, writing on The Meteor is independent and cannot be taken down by corporate content moderators or ideological government censors, as I’ve experienced before. The Meteor is also free. Please subscribe if you’d like to keep up with my work.
Before this, I worked in Washington, D.C., in international affairs.
Welcome to The Meteor Magazine.
Welcome to life in the crater.