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(Re)Introducing Wichita and the Mittelpolitan, Again
A re-commitment to a local project, hopefully
 • Russell Arben Fox

December 2025

The 10 Best Books I Read in 2025
Phil Christman, Why Christians Should be Leftists
 • Russell Arben Fox
The 10 Best Movies I Watched in 2025
As always, this is my listing of what I think were the best movies I saw in the past calendar year, not necessarily movies that came out during that…
 • Russell Arben Fox
Insight Kansas Column for December (No. 2): Becky Elder, a Local Kansas Matriarch (and More)
A second monthly column, a tribute, and a sad but fitting way to close out 2025
 • Russell Arben Fox
Insight Kansas Column for December (No. 1): On City Managers, Both For and Against
An expanded version of the first of two Insight Kansas columns I'll be publishing this month.
 • Russell Arben Fox

November 2025

October 2025

September 2025

August 2025

Insight Kansas column for August: Could President Trump Take Over Policing in Wyandotte County?
(A Primer on Presidential Power at our Current Moment)
 • Russell Arben Fox
An Urban History of Prosperity’s Menace, and Those Who Sought (and Still Seek) to Tame It
A review of a book that has nothing directly to say about Wichita--but much which every urban area, Wichita included, ought to learn from.
 • Russell Arben Fox
Spot the (Alleged) Neoliberal
Or, Why Partisanship was Relevant to a Supposedly Non-Partisan City Council Primary Race, and Why That’s a Good Thing Too
 • Russell Arben Fox
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