January 4th, 2010. That was my hardest day. It’s not close. In a parking lot behind SEAL Team One I said goodbye to my wife. It had been a month since my […]
God and Politics
Roy Moore is What Happens When No One Believes Anything
The incentive system in politics has a structural flaw. Our elected representatives are aptly named. They represent our values or our policy preferences. Hopefully both. Those representatives are people though; subject to […]
The Cost of Low Standards
Lincoln stood on the East Portico of the Capitol in 1865 and told a country that had lost a half million of its sons to war in less than four years that […]
It’s Not Revolt. It’s Consolidation
The Republican Party isn’t fractured. It’s consolidating. The recent criticisms of the president and announcements that Senators Jeff Flake of Arizona and Bob Corker of Tennessee won’t be seeking re-election do not […]
The Hard Truth
I’ve done the work on guns. I own one. I’ve fired just about every kind. I’ve packed them up in containers and hauled them around the world and spent hours lining them […]
The Moral Compass
The Civil War started in Missouri. 40 years before anyone fired a shot, the state’s admission into the Union as a slave state drew a literal line in the dirt between states […]
The Weak State Myth
Dunbar’s Number is 150. That’s the number of people anthropologist Robin Dunbar claims we humans can maintain social relationships with based on our cognitive limits. Dunbar calculated that number from the ratio […]
