Why People Change Their Tune: What Marco Rubio, LBJ, and the Rest of Us Reveal About Power, Identity, and Being Human
Every once in a while, I see something online that makes me freeze — not because it’s shocking, but because it’s a perfect snapshot of a human truth that we usually ignore.
A few days ago, it was Dawn Neufeld’s quote tweet aimed at Marco Rubio.
Rubio had reposted the State Department announcing the renaming of the Institute of Peace to honor Donald Trump, calling him “the President of Peace.” Dawn’s reply was simple:
“You need to be studied.”
It wasn’t political. It wasn’t even angry. It was observational — like a biologist seeing an animal do something unexpected in the wild.
And she’s not wrong.
Rubio does deserve to be studied.
Not judged. Not mocked. Not psychoanalyzed on cable news.
Studied.
THE LONG BRIDGE HOME
An Essay About Music, Place, and the Quiet Work of Becoming
If you had asked the younger version of me who I was meant to be, I would have said something confident, rehearsed, and completely wrong.
I was a Boulder kid who went to Boston to major in music — the kind of student who imagined himself under stage lights, whatever success was supposed to look like back then. I believed, without ever articulating it, that real art lived in big cities, in big scenes, in places with reputations.