Perfect Circle Press

Crocodile Tears

The murder of Charlie Kirk was a tragedy, not so much in his death, but in the degree to which it has stoked the fires of enmity, of polarity…

Oct 1 • 

James Reid

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September 2025

In The Belly of the Beast

Nay, in the bowels of the beast: the medical establishment.

Sep 19 • 

James Reid

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AI and I

Can a machine that cannot feel make a world for feeling beings?

Sep 12 • 

James Reid

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Adventures of Blind Zorro

(A consolidation, with some revision, of three previous posts, now removed, regarding our illustrious hero.)

Sep 5 • 

James Reid

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August 2025

My Big Adventure

[From Shorts From the Interior.]

Aug 30 • 

James Reid

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Scorched Earth: Mutual Assured Destruction and the Gerrymander Wars

As Democrats prepare to confront an evil, perceived by its perpetrators as necessary to political ends, with the offsetting evil of the same description…

Aug 18 • 

James Reid

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Othello Revisited

[By ‘Revisited’ I refer to an earlier essay posted to my Substack page April 20, 2024, Othello in Blackface, which comes highly recommended by its…

Aug 7 • 

James Reid

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July 2025

Life’s Worth Measured

The solution to the enduring question of the ‘meaning’ of life arises from the experience of living: the ‘spiritual’ arising from the experiential…

Jul 25 • 

James Reid

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June 2025

Loathing Trump While Loving the Bomb

From: The Fifth Period, VII: Observations Regarding the Election of 2024: Run Up and Aftermath

Jun 24 • 

James Reid

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May 2025

Restoration of Governance

From: The Fifth Period, VII: Observations Regarding the Election of 2024: Run up and Aftermath

May 27 • 

James Reid

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Little Weeny Marco and Related Matters

From: 'The Fifth Period of Time', VII: Observations Regarding the Election of 2024: Run up and Aftermath'

May 20 • 

James Reid

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Pet Religions

Of the two major religions in the U.S, those who worship dogs and those who worship cats, and while an acolyte of neither, I confess to a partiality for…

May 2 • 

James Reid

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