Writing

How ambient computation and predictive infrastructure are quietly swapping discipline for control — and what that does to the meaning of freedom.

A policy agenda for bending technology toward family life instead of letting it dissolve the household.

Why NEPA reviews and FAA permitting throttle American spaceflight — and a concrete path to unblock it.

The Great Stagnation is not fate but the product of institutions that quietly stopped trying to build.

A pragmatic middle path between AI doom and AI denial, written for the people who actually have to make policy.

War-game forums and Discord leaks now spill classified secrets faster than any foreign intelligence service.

An eight-part inquiry into how the modern media ecology dissolved any shared sense of the real.

Conservatism lost because it set out to conserve markets, and markets dissolved the very things — family, place, tradition — it meant to protect.

The metaverse isn't a coming destination; media has already replaced the shared world with a more compelling, more profitable copy.

Nordic accession lets Washington hand European security to Europe and pivot in earnest toward the Pacific.

Content moderation is inescapably political, because governing speech is itself an act of governance — there is no neutral ground.

Silicon Valley's faith in frictionless connection built, almost by accident, the architecture of a new soft tyranny.