The game is how the rest of the world gets access to it. This thing that we do. We choose some portion of our best. The ones that want to be chosen. […]
To Those About To Go
Some Thoughts on George H.W. Bush
Our lives aren’t stories. Not the way we like to think they are; like three act plays following a tight narrative as the twists and turns of decades come to some culminating […]
When The Dust Settles
The force of personality that is Donald Trump has made for some strange bedfellows in contemporary American politics. A broad coalition of pundits, former politicians and Americans who, in other times, would […]
This is the Review I Want to Write About Tyler Cowen’s Stubborn Attachments…
A few months back, my roommate from Annapolis sent me a text that marked a distinct waypoint on the arc of our relationship over the last 25 years. He’s a combat decorated, […]
Thank You Stan Lee
I never once read a comic book as a kid. All I did was play sports, talk to girls and fit in. It was a happy, easy path. I’ve got sons of […]
To The Life Once Lived
I have no stoic message to tell the world how grateful they should feel. There’s no pining over lost years and an America of better days, more worthy of the service of […]
The Cost of Veteran Value Signaling
The 22-a-day number is not real. The number publicized to show how many vets commit suicide every day is not real. The actual number is something less than that. And a deeper […]
What Did We Learn?
I don’t know what a “blue wave” is, beyond a campaign rallying cry turned into a subjective term by which talking heads felt compelled to evaluate the 2018 mid-terms. An election, by […]
What’s at Stake
In the summer of 1989, two years before the fall of the Berlin Wall, political scientist Francis Fukuyama penned the essay, The End of History? In it, he pondered the meaning of the […]
Voters Guide for The Rational
The election is on Tuesday. If you’re like most voters, as I am, you haven’t really had time to dig down into the details of everything on the ballot and perhaps you’re […]
