Essays and analysis on history, political thought, and the long arc of ideas — a think tank of one.
Starting This Blog
Why I’m writing about history and ideas.
Why Modern Movies with iPhones Leave Me Cold (And What Star Trek Gets Right About Technology)
A lot of modern movies treat the iPhone as a substitute for character and drama. Star Trek shows what it looks like when technology serves the story instead of replacing it.
Great Writers Freeze a Language
How Shakespeare, Cervantes, and Dante didn’t just write literature — they froze language in time, and we’re still speaking it.