Essays From A Unique Perspective

Thomas Paine, John Locke, Aristotle, and Plato on what distinguishes a free people from a tyrannized one — and why the distinction still matters.

A state free from religion in the American tradition — the philosophy from Roger Williams to the Bill of Rights.

A tale of two branches to serve — on government and religion as separate instruments of the same purpose.

The US two-party system, what the Founders feared about factions, and the cost of treating compromise as the supreme evil.

Why the wealth of the middle class — not capital, not low wages — is what actually drives a strong economy.

A correction to a generation's economic intuitions about inflation, wages, and the public foundations of private prosperity.

On conservatives, ignorance as a philosophical posture, and the privilege of not believing in what you have just spent.

On righteousness as a practice, foresight as duty, and the antithesis of righteousness that wears the mask of patience.

A meditation on whether human intelligence, being biological, can free us from the destiny of biology itself.

On abnormal psychology in public life, and what it means when a movement chooses psychopathy as its leadership trait of choice.

After the system we know is dismantled, an opportunity opens to deliberately design a global community for human dignity.

What the research actually says about derangement, bullshit-acceptance, and which voters were willing to subvert democracy.

On a party of losers, a candidate who tripped over a buried bar, and 75 million reasons Democrats lost an election they should have won.

The two paths America was committed to that day — and the more sophisticated power that was lost.

Arlington at Memorial Day — an essay in photographs and prose on those who paid the price of our freedom.