WRITE CLUB: FORTIFY
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 FORTIFY.
March 25, 2017 · Leave a comment
Seven by Sondheim.
A meditation on what the master’s work has meant to me on this, the occasion of his 87th birthday.
March 22, 2017 · Leave a comment
Precarious.
These are the dominoes.
A man of little curiosity and even lesser competence avoids regular briefings on national security…
February 10, 2017 · Leave a comment
Working Theory.
Start with the concession that America has achieved greatness. Not “perfection,” never and far from, but something that can be agreed upon as greatness.
February 2, 2017 · Leave a comment
The Larger Sandbox.
There’s a behavior you can sometimes observe if you watch a three year-old interact with a one year-old, in which the former seems perplexed at the developmental stage of the latter.
January 30, 2017 · Leave a comment
Creative Control 