I sat down with an old teammate, Jack Riggins, and did an hour to talk autism, war and a little about writing. I’m not sure you’ll hear a more honest conversation about […]
Podcast: The Dark Side of Elite
Impeachment and What it Tells Us About the State of American Institutions
I stopped writing about politics a few months ago. If you take the long view of things and incorporate enough history and objective thought into that sort of work you start to […]
On the Utility of Faith
For those of you who don’t follow the majesty that is @sphughes99 on Twitter…this sort of stuff pops out from time to time… Thread on the utility of faith. Most of the […]
A Bridge to Nowhere
My family has been in America a long time. My first descendant was a Dutch immigrant to New Amsterdam in the 1630’s named Wyckoff. He was an indentured servant who rose to […]
The Systems Problem of Mass Shootings
Mass shootings are a systems problem; a problem that involves complex environments in which multiple inputs of varying degrees of dependency act together to produce some systemic outcome. And while we may […]
To the Moon
Second only to the Gettysburg address for me…one of the great of American Speeches given September 12, 1962 at Rice Stadium in Houston Texas by President John F. Kennedy. Enjoy…50 years to […]
On America
For every charge over Omaha Beach, there’s a My Lei. For every Apollo 11, there’s a Tuskegee Syphilis experiment. All our heroes have the same problem heroes always have. They’re people. And […]
We Have No Excuse
I came down to my kitchen yesterday morning and realized that I was running short on the lion’s mane, Scandinavian made mushroom coffee that I drink. I spoke a few words into […]
Book Review: Tyler Cowen’s Big Business, A Love Letter to an American Anti-Hero
If it seems like I just wrote a review of a new Tyler Cowen book, that’s because I just did. He’s since written another though. With six months between releases, the Tyler Cowen […]
Overlord
“Our landings in the Cherbourg-Havre area have failed to gain a satisfactory foothold and I have withdrawn the troops. My decision to attack at this time and place was based upon the […]