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New article in Wayfarer Magazine (an excerpt from What Happened to Icarus) @wayfarermagazine.bsky.social

“What Happened to Icarus,” my next book, is now available for pre-order: www.wayfarerbookstore.com/product/what...

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The latest excerpt from my next book, “What Happened to Icarus,” is available here in Wayfarer Magazine. Read the article “Mozambique” here: www.wayfarermagazine.com/p/mozambique...

“If we do not take seriously the deep, psychic processes at work, we will be doomed. To think that something like the holocaust cannot happen here is to ignore ... history and, most importantly, what’s really going on with the human psyche" Read: open.substack.com/pub/theocosm...

Blackhawk helicopters flying over the the south side of Chicago. We are under siege.

Here’s another excerpt from my next book, “What happened to Icarus.” It’s a story about mentorship and community—and about what endures when memories fade. www.wayfarermagazine.com/p/sue?r=18kv...

Read the new issue of @wayfarermagazine.bsky.social here: open.substack.com/pub/wayfarer...

The following article, “The Two-inch Glass,” is an excerpt from my forthcoming book, “What Happened to Icarus.” It’s about borders & barriers, freedom & imprisonment, and a visit to Cook County Jail. www.wayfarermagazine.com/p/the-two-in...

If the University of Chicago Won’t Defend the Humanities, Who Will? Why it matters that the University of Chicago is pausing admissions to doctoral programs in literature, philosophy, the arts, and languages By Tyler Austin Harper www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...

I was recently interviewed for The Wayfarer’s series, UNCHARTED @wayfarermagazine.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/wayfarer...

This is piece, entitled “Death Bed”, published in Wayfarer Magazine, is an excerpt from my forthcoming book, “What Happened to Icarus.” It’s a chapter about what happens when death becomes the only possible subject of conversation. substack.com/home/post/p-...

My favorite part of the air & water show coming to Chicago every summer is how it reminds me why we have no money for schools, healthcare, the arts, or feeding the hungry. Money for war but can’t feed the poor.

“If the world is to be healed through human efforts, I am convinced it will be by ordinary people, people whose love for this life is even greater than their fear.” RIP, Joanna R. Macy (May 2, 1929 – July 19, 2025)

An excerpt from my next book, What Happened to Icarus. www.wayfarermagazine.com/p/youve-done...

“We think that our purpose is to make it always bright and sunny, to numb the pain, to fix the broken things. But repair is something different. Repair is the antidote to despair.” Read here: open.substack.com/pub/theocosm...

Honoring interdependence and community today, not celebrating independence (or the nation-state). open.substack.com/pub/theocosm...

“IBUKUN Hip-Hop Arts and Culture Festival is a one-of-a-kind cultural celebration that brings together music, conversation, fashion, art, and community under one roof on Saturday, July 26, 2025, at the Zhou B Art Center in Chicago” www.ibukunfest.com

My publisher used Caravaggio’s “The Conversion on the Way to Damascus” for the cover of my novel “The Conversions.” I saw the original for the first time here in Rome at the Basilica of Santa Maria del Popolo. @wayfarerbooks.bsky.social

There is a story Written on my daughter’s body In languages I don’t speak… Read more on Substack: open.substack.com/pub/theocosm...

Thanks to my friend Kofi Ademola for all the good work he does and his contribution to this conversation: news.wttw.com/2025/05/21/5...

New edition now available from @wayfarerbooks.bsky.social

I was recently interviewed in The Wayfarer about a new project called “Reimagine: Self & Worldview.” Read the interview here: open.substack.com/pub/wayfarer... @wayfarermagazine.bsky.social

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“Although it gives us the illusion of control, the impossibility of invisibility, of lostness, is how our power is ceded.” Read more in Substack: open.substack.com/pub/theocosm...

“A Letter to My Daughters,” my memoir and winner of the 2018 Independent Publisher Award Gold medal, is being re-released. More here: www.wayfarerbookstore.com/product/a-le...

“ReImagine: Self & World(view)” is shared inquiry into the stories we tell that give us our sense of place in the world and how we can reimagine them at this moment—a moment when our systems and, even more significantly, the stories that connect us, are unraveling. More info on the attached flyer.

For #EarthDay, I am sharing an excerpt from Creatively Maladjusted. “Nature & Education" Read here: open.substack.com/pub/theocosm...

After reflecting on the stupidity of the regime in thinking that biodiversity is a DEI program, I realized the deeper lesson: As biodiversity is needed for healthy ecosystems, cultural diversity is required for healthy civilizations. We destroy them at our peril. www.yahoo.com/news/trump-a...

I taught philosophy through the Odyssey Project at Illinois Humanities and can say that they do some great work. The regime is anti-humanities because they have no humanity. blockclubchicago.org/2025/04/14/t...

Most of my recent writing can now be found on Substack. To follow or read, click here: open.substack.com/pub/theocosm...

Get this: Commerce is slashing $ to Princeton's world-renowned climate research b/c modeling changes to Earth systems is "contributing to a phenomenon known as 'climate anxiety,' which has increased significantly among America’s youth." No research, no problem! www.commerce.gov/news/press-r...

The “reason” is that this is a fascist regime.

I think it’s unlikely that the administration will follow the order—for several reasons, but especially because he’ll be able to share what’s happening there.

ReImagine Consulting & Coaching draws from decades of experience in nonprofit leadership, writing & editing, spirituality & religion, and education. Learn more here: theodorerichards.com/consulting-a...

I read this while reading @eveewing.bsky.social ‘s latest book on a trip from my adopted hometown of Chicago to the city I grew up in, Rochester, NY. I took this photo of my high school as I reflected on my own educational experiences from ROC to the south side of Chicago.

This is symbolic, but I believe it’s an important symbol. The whole “CEO” thing was about running our schools like businesses, and this was rooted in a problematic worldview that capitalism and business is more efficient and therefore superior to the wisdom of educators. www.wbez.org/education/20...

The demise of the Department of Education and the rise of DOGE occur together out of necessity; for they reflect a quasi-religious adherence to a worldview that favors efficiency, order, and control over the poetic, the organic, the creative. open.substack.com/pub/theocosm...

Unesco report highlights ‘unprecedented’ glacier loss driven by climate crisis, threatening ecosystems, agriculture and water sources Retreating glaciers threaten the food and water supply of 2 billion people around the world, the UN has warned, as current “unprecedented” rates of melting will…

A poem. Read here: open.substack.com/pub/theocosm...

Since I wrote this almost a year ago, leadership at almost every level has grown even more disgraceful. The illegal detention of Mahmoud Khalil is a threat not only to the lives of Palestinians, but also to democracy & free speech in the US. #FreeMahmoudKhalil. open.substack.com/pub/theocosm...

Can we stop talking throwing around words like "autocracy" and "oligarchy" when talking about America's uncertain future? According to history, political experts, and a little-known book called "a dictionary," America is ALREADY in the throes of fascism.

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The Great Reimagining: Embracing Apocalypse as Possibility We live in a world that feels like it’s on the brink. Climate collapse, political polarization, societal upheaval—everywhere you look, there are echoes of an ending. open.substack.com/pub/wayfarer...

“Teaching and learning, above all else, are a reflection of—and recursively reify—a worldview.” Read and learn more from Reimagining the Classroom and the Imaginari Fellowship: open.substack.com/pub/theocosm...