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 […]
Some Thoughts on George H.W. Bush
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 […]
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 […]
On My Experience With Domestic Terror
I originally wrote this as a Twitter thread a few minutes after the news of the shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh broke this morning. I thought there was […]
Identity Politics and Immigration
I am pro immigration. I wrote a chapter in my book about immigration being a consistent political boogeyman throughout American history. I wrote an article in Playboy (yes they really have articles) […]
Stupid and In Charge: The Anti-Fragile Experience of the Junior Officer
I recently finished reading Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff’s The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure. The title and sub get you […]
An Essay About Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga
It can’t be all politics and economics. There’s just not enough blood in it. There’s more than there used to be, for sure. But not the right kind. So, from time to […]
Rare Honesty in Politics
It took me a little while to understand that I was doing it wrong. I didn’t come to the conclusion on my own. I had others with more skin in the game […]
A Generation of Fear
It takes a generation of living with something before it changes the way we live. When the electrical grid was first installed and factories shifted from steam to electrical power, very little […]