Nick Allison is a college dropout, former Army infantryman, and a writer based in Austin, Texas. His essays and poems have been published in The Chaos Section, CounterPunch, HuffPost, The Fulcrum, The Shore, Dissident Voice, New Verse News, and a few other places.
A center-left political independent with a distrust of all ideologies (including his own), Nick spends too much time reading about history, democracy, authoritarian drift, and systems in collapse—and not nearly enough time being optimistic about any of it. He writes about politics, culture, religion, and philosophy mostly as a way to make sense of the mess. His non-writing interests include baseball, philosophy, trail running, and loitering in independent coffee shops under the guise of productivity.
Ever since discovering the Mac shortcut for the em dash way too late in life, he’s been abusing it—constantly—and has no plans to stop. Also, he secretly enjoys writing his own bio in the third person, probably because it makes him feel a little smarter and more important than he actually is.
Nick’s Articles and Essays:
The Chaos Section
Huff Post
The Fulcrum
CounterPunch
Substack
Interview with Collaborature
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