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Category Archives: Essay

Social Psychology and Moral Compromise.

Right now somebody you know is preparing to justify this.

June 13, 2018 · Leave a comment

Blindfolds and Political Imprisonment.

America’s working class have been called out to the courtyard and lined up against the wall.

May 23, 2018 · Leave a comment

Zugzwang.

“A situation in which the obligation to make a move in one’s turn is a serious, often decisive, disadvantage.”

May 8, 2018 · Leave a comment

The virtues of impeachment.

I respectfully disagree with Mr. Comey.

April 16, 2018 · Leave a comment

Suspect.

Even when you try to make sense of it, it barely makes sense.

March 13, 2018 · Leave a comment

Deny, deny, deny.

In which heads of state say “nuh-uh.”

March 10, 2018 · Leave a comment

WRITE CLUB: KISS

Write Club is a monthly, literary bloodsport in which contenders face off against each other with 7-minute essays on competing topics. This was the combatant essay for KISS.

February 20, 2018 · Leave a comment

The Numbers.

On statistical analysis and crisis response.

February 15, 2018 · Leave a comment

Blood sacrifices.

There is a boy my son’s age in surgery tonight suffering from four bullet wounds.

November 5, 2017 · Leave a comment

And to the Republic for which he kneels.

What a quarterback is doing, what a president has done.

October 15, 2017 · Leave a comment