I am a writer, reporter, and photographer living in glorious Oregon.
You may know me from my coverage for The Guardian of the rise of the far right in America — from Malheur, to Charlottesville, to downtown Portland. I also have been a long-term commentator on right wing media.
Of course, I write about other things — Australian politics, religion, institutional abuse, antifascism, cryptids, dogs, and the American West.
Mostly this newsletter will deal with the right, which I intend to keep reporting on here, and for outlets like The Guardian. But I might stray into other, related areas when need be, hence the noncommittal title.
Free subscribers will get a weekly essay, and an update, including links to my own work elsewhere, and to other crucial reading.
Paid subscribers will get all that plus 2 more emails a month, including at least one piece of new, substantial, longform reportage.
(Note: The Owl’s name and logo is taken from a long-dead (public domain) newspaper published in Beaverton, Oregon, not far from my home base. Inter alia, the newspaper encouraged the US’s entry into the First World War, and closed soon afterwards. So while we don’t share an editorial line, we do share a commitment to other Owlish values: an aspiration to “see through deception, illusion, external appearances and to find hidden truths”, and to understand “that we can always find food in the darkness”).
