Ever the Outsider

If Congress Could Just Get Naked, Drink Wine, and Fuck

Watch now | Or the boner-killing effects of political absolutism

Jul 10 • Duval Culpepper

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Rich-Kid Socialism: Zohran, the DSA, and the Trickle-Across Problem

I grew up in a two-bedroom Harlem apartment with eight people in it and took the train downtown every morning to a rich private school on the Upper West…

Jul 7 • Duval Culpepper

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June 2026

Transplants Are Getting Good At This

Or how midwestern whites somehow spun a Puerto Rican woman's words into "xenophobia."

Jun 10 • Duval Culpepper

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I went to an NYC tech scene party.

Everybody's pitching for the weekend.

Jun 5 • Duval Culpepper

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May 2026

Affordable for Who? The Harlem Housing Crisis Mamdani Needs to Answer For

Will Mamdani help Harlem stay black?

May 29 • Duval Culpepper

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Free Wine and Paul Simon in the streets of Birmingham, Michigan

After meeting an old friend in Royal Oak, I pushed on into the outskirts of the Detroit metro area to discover smoothies and public hedonism.

May 12 • Duval Culpepper

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Royal Oak, an old friend and a password I wasn't supposed to have.

I hadn't seen Christina in years. She showed up anyway.

May 5 • Duval Culpepper

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April 2026

New York was done with me—so I drove to Detroit.

In 2016 I drove across the country running from something. I didn't know what. I still don't. So I went back out.

Apr 29 • Duval Culpepper

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Bougie Black Man Returns Home to Harlem

Gentrification is a mother.

Apr 24 • Duval Culpepper

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I got laid off—here's what they don't want me to say on Linkedin.

AI displacement, invisible labor and the VP who called content design 'text.'

Apr 23 • Duval Culpepper

Cracking Jokes 60 Blocks from Ground Zero

On millennial optimism, F. Scott Fitzgerald and why hope is the most dangerous thing you can choose right now.

Apr 3 • Duval Culpepper

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March 2026

Nobody Owns My Blackness: From Harlem to Bar Mitzvahs

The criticism I get is rarely about the points I’m making.

Mar 18 • Duval Culpepper

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