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What Happens When Principle Meets Opportunity
Thomas Jefferson believed in limited government the way some people believe in a religion they quietly stopped practicing.
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What We Lost After We Reached the Moon
In 1958, seventy-three percent of Americans trusted the federal government to do the right thing almost always or most of the time.
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The Island, the Offer, and the Logic Behind It
In 1946, the United States government secretly offered Denmark $100 million in gold for Greenland.
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Masculine Energy Is What You Say When the Strategy Fails
The metaverse was supposed to be the future.
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The Man They Needed to Be Unreal
In December, I published an essay examining the psychology behind Trump’s accusation that Mitt Romney was a Democratic plant.
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When the Ring Came to Faramir, He Had Already Decided.
"Wizard's pupil," Denethor sneers. The insult is really a description. What Gandalf taught Faramir wasn't spells. It was the shape of how things go.
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Lincoln, Reconstruction, and Why the South Is Still Paying for 1877
Here’s something that doesn’t get said enough: the American South has never fully recovered from the Civil War.
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Genny Harrison
Mostly Tolkien, sometimes other books and films. I write about Gandalf, Elrond, Éomer, Faramir and more, not as escape but as clarity. Middle-earth shows how power, collapse, and hope work, and why these stories still matter now.
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