Long-form essays on history, politics, systems, philosophy, and war.
The story of Omaha Beach is often remembered as inevitable victory. The first-wave accounts show something more uncomfortable: success built out of confusion, mislandings, chance, and units nearly destroyed before they could fight.
A flagship essay on the buried chronology, the institutional incentives, and the records that complicate the accepted narrative.
What old policy language reveals about present conflicts, public memory, and the machinery of escalation.
A systems essay on statistics, fear, incentives, and the numbers that move before opinion does.
Meeting minutes, procurement language, and silence can reveal more than the public hearing ever did.
A philosophy and media essay on repetition, certainty, and how public narratives become common sense.
