Teddy Macker
Teddy Macker wrote policy and speeches for a presidential candidate. His writings appear widely: Front Porch Republic, Los Angeles Times, Orion, Tablet, The Sun, Tin House, and various anthologies. He is the author of the book of poems, This World (White Cloud Press, 2015; foreword by Brother David Steindl-Rast). He lives on a small farm in Carpinteria, California with his wife and daughters.
Articles by Teddy Macker
A Larger Category Than Political Allegiance
Humanity should remain a larger category than political allegiance even as we openly—and, one hopes, bravely—discuss and work through our politics.
The New Alignment
Contemplating this turn of events in our politics reminds me that we human beings have a strong desire for tidy coherence. Sometimes this desire can be a kind of sickness.
The Falconer
A skeptic’s take on such a variety of experience would chalk it up as privileged gonzo larkishness or chest-beating thrill-seeking—an understandable take, one likely partly true. But there was more…
The Deep Spring: A Few Words in Favor of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
This is the spirituality of a man post-tragedy, post-heroin, post-forty-days-in-the-wilderness. Not the self-pleased, spick-and-span, airbrushed piety we’ve come to expect from presidential candidates these days but practical spirituality.
Fact’s Two Faces: On the Masking of Children at School
Life is ambiguous, murky, rife with situations that elude dogma’s capture. When the seas get rough, however, our tolerance of this is one of the first things hucked overboard. For…