To most Americans, Iran’s foreign policy often looks less like grand strategy and more like a drunken bar fight. Missiles at Israel. Proxy attacks Continue Reading
Everything I Like Online Is AI
The other day I realized something mildly unsettling: everything I like online is probably AI.The article that made me think.The podcast that sounded Continue Reading
Useless Geniuses: The Complement to Useful Idiots
There’s a term that gets thrown around a lot in political and military circles: useful idiot. I wrote about it here on The Havok Journal. Other Continue Reading
We Will All Laugh at Gilded Butterflies—In or Out of Uniform
There’s a line from Shakespeare that doesn’t get nearly the mileage it deserves in modern conversation: “We will all laugh at gilded butterflies.” It Continue Reading
Science Advances One Funeral at a Time
Max Planck, the father of quantum theory, once said something that should make anyone in a position of authority uncomfortable: “Science advances Continue Reading
Cargo Cult Science: When Looking the Part Replaces Getting It Right
In 1974, physicist Richard Feynman stood in front of a group of Caltech graduates and gave them a warning—one that has aged far better than most Continue Reading
Lupus In Fabula, Lupus In Veritas
Lupus in fabula—“the wolf in the story.” High school Latin was a long time ago, and Westover Senior High seems like it is a world away. When I heard Continue Reading
Canada’s Failed Gun Buy-Away Program: A Costly Failure Built on Non-Compliance
Canada’s federal gun "buyback" program, once touted as a cornerstone of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s gun control agenda, has increasingly come to Continue Reading
SPLC Indictment: Is the Demand for Racism in U.S. Is Outstripping Supply
There’s an uncomfortable truth buried beneath the headlines—and like most uncomfortable truths, it’s being ignored. The Southern Poverty Law Center Continue Reading
Iran’s Pink Missile Problem
Some regimes project power. Others perform it. And right now, Iran is doing theater. Not the kind meant to entertain—but the kind meant to Continue Reading
Veterans: Become the “Invincible Summer”
Albert Camus wrote it plainly: “In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.” It’s the kind of line that gets Continue Reading
Policy Isn’t Built on the Best Ideas—It’s Built on the Best Relationships
There’s a comforting myth in Washington, D.C., and in every large organization that tries to look like it: that policy is built on merit. The best Continue Reading