Flippant thoughts, half-baked ideas, and loosely-held opinions, to be developed over time.
Dispatches
It’s been nearly seven years since cancer surgery. I try not to think about that number too much. It only leads to ruminating over how things could have been different; and there’s no reason to stay in a loop when there’s an exit. My condition is stable
Memos
Fascism, as a formal ideology, is the rejection of reason in favor of will, the belief that social hierarchy is both natural and desirable, and the organization of social, political, and economic life around a strongman. But there are many ways to get there, most of which seem innocuous, even