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Deep Thoughts, Dry Wit, and the Occasional Existential Crisis.

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Series · 3 parts

The Country Shifted Right

A three-part series: the Overton window moved right, churches were mobilized as strategy, and the kitchen-table bet failed the outcomes test.

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Tell the Truth Until You Can't: Political Kayfabe, Heel Heat, and the Golden-Age Promo

By David Crush | Wrestling & Politics | 9 min read

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Ideas Are Easy: Curtis Yarvin Never Had to Build the Thing

By David Crush | Politics | 9 min read

Split editorial illustration: on the left a wrestler sits alone on a stool in a dark locker room; on the right the same man stands in a brightly lit ring while a crowd reaches up toward him. Wrestling

The Other Cage: The Price of Being a Face

By David Crush | Wrestling | 11 min read

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The Cost of Heat: The Green Shadow and the Bill for a Real Heel

By David Crush | Wrestling | 10 min read

Editorial illustration: a person at a fork in a dirt road. Left path labeled TOOL leads to a lamp-lit desk with handwritten notes. Right path labeled AVERAGE leads to a black box printing identical gray text. Software

Filling in the Blanks: What Anxiety Taught Me About AI

By David Crush | Software | 6 min read

Split editorial cartoon: a Buy Now button and I agree checkbox on the left; an empty library stamped REMOVED and a publicly funded stadium with a private profits vault on the right. Software

They Can't Have It Both Ways: Sony, Disney+, Stadiums, and the License You Never Bought

By David Crush | Software | 12 min read

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A Bigger Table

By David Crush | Religion | 5 min read

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TNA Lockdown 2026: Every Match in a Cage, and I Was Entertained

By David Crush | Wrestling | 5 min read

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How I Got Into Wrestling

By David Crush | Wrestling | 6 min read

Editorial cartoon: a wrestling promoter signs a giant TV contract while a network executive in a suit rewrites the match card on a clipboard, empty arena seats in the background. Wrestling

The Rights Deal Trap: Wrestling, Media Money, and the Cost of Letting Non-Wrestlers Run the Show

By David Crush | Wrestling | 11 min read

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The Lost Art of Professional Wrestling: Psychology, Kayfabe, and Why the Business Stopped Scaling

By David Crush | Wrestling | 13 min read

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