Dune's Butlerian Jihad and Our Own
How news about rising AI hesitancy brought me back to the Dune books
Tears of the Kingdom
Object permanence is the ability to understand that objects and events endure
The King's Speech
The story from Washington is victory. The story in the region is much messier.
The War They Didn’t Plan For
The Cost of this War is Bigger than Oil and Energy Prices
It's Giving Rogue State
The US has no regard for the institutions it helped create and the results are predictably terrible
The American War on Iran
Living through the fallout from the US war on Iran and its larger regional impacts
Another American War of Choice
The US launched another war of choice in the Middle East and everyday people are paying the cost
A Zero Consequence Society
The total lack of accountability for elites is the worst type of "American Exceptionalism"
ICE is State Violence at Scale
What we're seeing in Minneapolis was always the plan
Football is Life
Travel mishaps and football history, our rollercoaster journey to Northern England
Slave Patrols and ICE: A Shared History
America's authoritarian approach to immigration enforcement is an echo of its past
New Year, News Detox
Balancing the desire to avoid misinformation and state propaganda while still staying informed
What I’m Looking Forward to in 2026
In spite of the moment, these are the places I'm looking for joy in 2026
Where’d All the Money Go?
The $80 trillion wealth drain and where money for substantial public programs may be hiding.
Affordability: This Math Ain't Mathing
Life in the United States for the lower 75% of income earners has become unaffordable. For people in the bottom 25% it's a full blown crisis. This has been...
When Labor Won, Wall Street Revolted: Affordability, Part 3
Welcome to the rare midweek edition of Takes & Typos. I am coming to you today because last Thursday Hope had a minor surgical procedure and I spent most of...
The High Cost of Capitulation
I’m going to keep today’s newsletter relatively brief because we are traveling. We’re on our way back from a weekend in Al Ain, in the interior of UAE. It is...
The Fifty Year Mortgage
Last week we wrapped our series on wealth consolidation and the billionaire class. But you all, and the impunity of the oligarchs, keep dragging me back in....
Oligarchs, Empathy, and Truth – A Reader Mailbag
Greetings from an undisclosed location in Doha, Qatar, where I’m chaperoning a group of kids at an interscholastic academic competition. It’s been a...
What Protests? Media Made by Oligarchs
I learned a long time ago that I'm not very good at making predictions, so I usually avoid doing so. However, in the aftermath of yesterday's "No Kings"...