The old fairy tale says we live in a marketplace of ideas. How adorable. That phrase always arrives dressed like a civics teacher and leaves smelling Continue Reading
When Whiteness Becomes Probable Cause
There’s a point where a society stops pursuing justice and starts playing racial bingo with a body still warm on the floor. We have reached that Continue Reading
Failure Got Promoted and You Got the Bill
Failure used to leave a bruise. Now it gets a staff retreat, a revised title, and a lanyard printed by people who think “impact” is a substitute Continue Reading
D-Day 2026 and the Patriotic Screensaver Industrial Complex
Today America will pause for the 82nd anniversary of D-Day, which means we’ll spend eight minutes pretending to understand sacrifice before returning Continue Reading
The Cult of Performed Dysfunction
The surest sign a society has lost its mind is when it starts calling basic self-respect oppression. That’s when you know the adults have left the Continue Reading
The Hot Take Laundromat
Nothing in modern public life is more impressive than the speed with which allegedly serious people can convert ignorance into certainty. Give them a Continue Reading
The Useless Keep Getting Promoted
Author’s Note: This piece is the private-sector sequel to “The Battlefield Is Not a Diversity Workshop,” because apparently the Pentagon didn’t corner Continue Reading
The Sanctimony Industrial Complex
We’ve built a society where moral status is rented by the hour, and the monthly fee is public performance. That’s the thesis. Not that people have Continue Reading
The Virtue Bunker
There is no sermon more passionate than the one delivered from a safe zip code. That is the central racket of modern public life. The people most Continue Reading
The People Selling the Smoke Alarm Started the Fire
We don’t live in an information age anymore. We live in a panic carnival run by ring lights, consultants, and professionally moisturized frauds who Continue Reading
Protected, Powerful, and Still Performing Persecution
There’s a fascinating little magic trick modern Western culture performs every day. A woman can live in the most legally protected, socially Continue Reading
America’s Four-Year Experiment in Presidential Puppetry
In 1968, Star Trek aired one of its nastier little morality plays, an episode called “Patterns of Force,” in which a Federation historian tries to Continue Reading