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All essays by David Crush on Christianity, neurodivergence, politics, and pro wrestling.

Colored-pencil illustration of a long wooden kitchen table set for a crowd that has not arrived yet. In the foreground lie four Bibles side by side: a black leather one with gilt edges, a large one lying open with a red ribbon across its pages, a navy blue one, and a burnt-orange one, each with a ribbon marker. Behind them sit two woven baskets heaped with bread rolls and a plate of two small fish. Mismatched empty chairs surround the table: wooden spindle-backs, a blue-painted chair, and a gray metal folding chair.

An Open Book Test

645 million people faced hunger in 2025. Matthew's crowd had seven baskets left.

Oct 9, 2026

Colored-pencil illustration of a crowded, cheerful baby shower: pastel balloons, bunting, and a table piled with wrapped gifts, surrounded by smiling guests in conversation. Above their heads, their talk is drawn as one dense, tangled black scribble. In the right corner, a bearded man sits on a couch, smiling and petting two golden dogs, with a baseball game on the TV beside him. On a side table next to him stand three red soda cans and one blue one.

Neurodivergence

A Pepsi in a World of Coca-Cola

Our baby shower was full of love. To me, every conversation became one blob.

Oct 8, 2026

Colored-pencil illustration: three men in suits stand with arms crossed behind the glass doors of a modern office, watching a man walk away carrying a cardboard box holding a mug, a small plant, and a Bible. The paved sidewalk under his feet turns into an ancient dirt road through olive trees and rocky hills, where a small group of robed first-century travelers walks ahead of him toward a walled hilltop city in golden evening light.

In Good Company

Matthew's Jesus is not serene. I read him while my job was coming apart.

Oct 7, 2026

Editorial cartoon: a worn Cast Member ID badge hangs on a wall hook beside eleven service-star pins and tally marks counting eleven years; below, a cardboard box holds packed desk belongings including a mug reading Be Kind to Every Mind, unless it needs accommodations, while an office door stands ajar on a theme-park skyline at dusk.

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Eleven Years a Cast Member

Eleven years at Disney, under all those posters. Ordinary management was enough.

Editorial cartoon: a speaker at a podium lights a match to a paper schedule while a wrapped gift and an empty coastal road sit unused behind him.

The Coast Was Available

CBO had a two-percent path in writing. He signed the other one in the Rose Garden.

Sep 10, 2026

Editorial cartoon: a man in academic robes stands at a lectern stamped SUBSCRIBE, eyes closed, a SPEECH CODE scroll in one hand, while a crowd in the dark below fills speech bubbles with a gun and a gallows.

The Philosopher and the Crowd

In 2008 he asked for chanting hordes. A 2026 reply wanted a governor at gunpoint.

Sep 9, 2026

Editorial cartoon: a speaker at a podium shouts while a smaller figure bricks shut a hole torn in the speech-scroll behind him.

The Blank They Fill In

Trump said firefighters carried him on 9/11. He was five miles north, in Midtown.

Sep 9, 2026

Editorial cartoon: a midnight line clutches empty retail boxes; an open box holds a slip labeled LICENSE, a PRE-ORDER sign glows orange, and a receipt is stamped REVOCABLE.

Pre-Ordering Permission

GTA VI's box shows up November 12. Inside is a slip of paper.

Sep 6, 2026

Editorial illustration: a living-room television shows a wrestling ring under an ON AIR light; in the aisle a policeman holds a crowd, and an unused safety harness hangs from the arena lights.

Nothing Fake About the Bill

Owen Hart talked to the writer about the harness. Then he fell seventy-eight feet.

Sep 4, 2026

Editorial cartoon: a theorist on a safe stone balcony holds a pristine city blueprint and a quill while workers shore up a cracked Capitol-like dome below; a crumpled blueprint labeled URBIT lies at his feet.

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

Yarvin built Urbit, then told Tim Dillon you shouldn't go there.

Sep 4, 2026