American Dreaming

Oct 4, 2024 | americandreaming.substack.com | Jamie Paul

American Dreaming is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support the work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. In the 1960s and 70s, as the global population was growing by leaps and bounds, prominent intellectuals, institutions, and political leaders, from the United Nations, to the Club of Rome, to President Richard Nixon, warned about the looming crisis of overpopulation.

Feb 12, 2024 | americandreaming.substack.com | Jamie Paul

American Dreaming is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support the work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. If it seems like the US is trapped in a perpetual election season, it’s not you. In America, you have to run for office just to be able to run for office — then you have to run for office. They’re called primary elections, or primaries, and it’s how political parties select their nominees.

Jul 22, 2023 | americandreaming.substack.com | Alexander von Sternberg

This post is by Contributor Alexander von Sternberg. He also has a new piece out in Queer Majority: “The Backlash Against Sexual Freedom and How To Fix It.”In June 2023, a crippling blow was dealt to affirmative action, the policy that (originally) aimed to right the past wrongs of institutional discrimination against black Americans.

Jul 15, 2023 | americandreaming.substack.com | Jamie Paul

There is a concept in theology and meta-ethics known as “divine command theory” (DCT), which asserts that morality and moral goodness stem from God. In this view, whatever a god commands is moral because they commanded it, and every action a god takes is moral because they did it. This concept underlies much of Abrahamic religion. Perhaps the most iconic parable of divine command theory is the Genesis story of Yahweh commanding Abraham to sacrifice his son Isaac.

Jun 3, 2023 | americandreaming.substack.com | Jamie Paul

Contributor Johan Pregmo has a new piece in Queer Majority arguing the case for Pride as a universal celebration of sexual and romantic freedom: “Pride is Universal.”In his 2016 sci-fi thriller Quantum Night, Robert J.