Tracing Woodgrains

On Growing Up Gay, Mormon, and Loved

The words I left unsaid

Apr 26 • Jack Despain Zhou

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September 2025

How Hobson v. Hansen Shaped Our World

One last thing before I say goodbye for now

Sep 8, 2025 • Jack Despain Zhou

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August 2025

It Takes a Village To Have a Child

Our surrogacy journey so far

Aug 24, 2025 • Jack Despain Zhou

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July 2025

How Wikipedia Whitewashes Mao

The Anatomy of Ideological Capture

Jul 29, 2025 • Jack Despain Zhou

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April 2025

An Unfinished Essay on Procrastination

Presented as-is

Apr 14, 2025 • Jack Despain Zhou

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March 2025

What Convinced Me: Stories from my path out of Mormonism

My first essays tracing the woodgrains

Mar 11, 2025 • Jack Despain Zhou

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Orson Scott Card: Casualty of Culture Wars

A reflection on a personal hero

Mar 9, 2025 • Jack Despain Zhou

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February 2025

The View From Neoreaction

Explaining Curtis Yarvin's old writing

Feb 27, 2025 • Jack Despain Zhou

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Introducing The Center for Educational Progress

Education must reorient itself around a culture of excellence

Feb 10, 2025 • Jack Despain Zhou

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The Full Story of the FAA's Hiring Scandal

Inside a decade of struggle to bring a scandal to light

Feb 4, 2025 • Jack Despain Zhou

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January 2025

Book Review: The Color of Law

Housing policy three generations after the Civil Rights movement

Jan 20, 2025 • Jack Despain Zhou

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November 2024

The Center Must Rise

No centrist who understands the current moment has ever truly laid out their case to the Democratic Party base in the context of a serious political…

Nov 18, 2024 • Jack Despain Zhou

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