Good morning. In @nytimes today, a deeper, slightly less panic-stricken examination of the Society of American Civic Renewal (SACR) and the broader, cultural movement it is reifying around the country. Far from trad larps, apocalyptic pipe dreams, or purely political movements, we are simply standing on Christian values that beget a civilized way of life, even if it means we must make life-altering choices such as leaving our ancestral homes like New York and California.

I debut in @firstthingsmag today writing on Brendan Eich, who ten years ago was attacked and chased out of Mozilla, a company he co-founded, for taking private civic action based upon his quiet Christian faith. It was a pivotal moment in our society and for me personally:

"I was working in New York's “Silicon Alley” when it happened, and I immediately recognized it as a major escalation in the culture war. It was a warning that the Leviathan of technocracy did not care how well I did, how hard I worked, or how well I treated others. Ideological conformity to the top-down, programmatic transformation of the country that was rapidly taking place was all that mattered. If I was unwilling to affirm the current thing dictated according to the whims of “progress,” I was an enemy of humanity and an enemy of America. And my beliefs, no matter how ancient, innocent, and valid, must bow to the will of Leviathan, or the digital swarm would descend upon me. In fact, the higher I rose, the harder opponents would hunt for an excuse to throw me, like Belteshazzar, to the lions." But it is not what happened to Brendan that should be the enduring lesson from that incident. It is how he and his work endured the wrong done to him and continued in spite of it. I cannot help but see the example of Christ, who above all wished "to do the will of Him that sent me, and to finish His work."

firstthings.com/web-exclusives…

A new statue atop a New York City courthouse. The artist says it’s part of an “urgent and necessary cultural reckoning underway as New York reconsiders traditional representations of power in public spaces and recasts civic structures to better reflect 21st-century social mores.” The statue, named "NOW", is a female figure emerging from a pink lotus. It has braids shaped as horns with a judicial lace apron. It is meant to pay homage to Ruth Bader Ginsberg and her fight for abortion.

The end of Yeezy at Adidas is the biggest opportunity in the fashion industry in decades. Do not put it beyond Kanye to have wanted this. For years he has been wanting to decouple from "corporations." He needed the initial investment for growth, but once he knew he had fire, he sees them needing his brand more than he needs their production/distribution capabilities.