Compliance to Plan: Grading US National Security Policy in 2015
What makes good national security policy? What’s the best way to create a strategy and see it through the long term? What happens if the […]
The State and The Individual
The State must be greater than the individual. To some readers, this seems obvious and intuitive–how could it not be so? To others, though, […]
The Best Way to Understand the Modern GOP is a Book Written in 1964
…And that book is Frank E. Smith’s Congressman from Mississippi. Although it’s occasionally classified as an autobiography, the work is less a strict retelling of […]
The Fallacy of the Monolith
There’s been a disturbing trend in the US, particularly–but not exclusively–on the right of grouping whole swaths of people together based on a single […]
Against the Day: Pynchon’s Journey Into the Real
One of the hallmarks of postmodern authors is their treatment of time as imaginary. Postmodern novelists such David Foster Wallace in Infinite Jest, Thomas Pynchon […]
Quaternions
“Actually, Quaternions failed because they perverted what the Vectorists thought they know of God’s intention — that space be simple, three-dimensional, and real, and if there must […]