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Reason(s) for the Season
Reason(s) for the Season
December 24, 2025
In September of 2025, President Trump signed NSPM-7, a national security directive aimed at instructing federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies to...

You Can Only Look Back, You Can Only Move Forward
October 30, 2025

The Unexamined Life, Brought to You by AI
September 5, 2025
I think about a profile of Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella a lot. Amidst the fawning typical of these kinds of puff pieces, a particular passage stood out and...

The Closure You Need, The Closure You Get: Firefly and Unplanned Endings
August 13, 2025
Firefly was a phenomenon. Eventually. Airing from September 20 through December 20 of 2002 on Fox, Firefly was a show with more ambition than viewers. Coming...

An Introduction
August 7, 2025
Today the term “muse” is typically used as a flourished shorthand for “inspiration,” harkening back to the Muses of Greek Mythology. But this is a...

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