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Essay Archive

Essays I have read, organized by year.

2026

Title Source Date
A $33 burger? As New York City eyes $30 minimum wage, restaurants brace for impact Reason 2026-04-27
Ross Douthat’s Shoddy Arguments For Religion Current Affairs 2026-04-22
The Information State Isn’t Going Away Compactmag 2026-04-22
How Political Violence Failed in the 1990s Compactmag 2026-04-22
Democrats’ Tax-and-Spend Dead End Compactmag 2026-04-22
Saving Modernity From Itself The Hedgehog Review 2026-04-22
Defender of Utopia’s Remnant The Hedgehog Review 2026-04-22
The AI Backlash Turns Violent Compactmag 2026-04-22
The New Face of the French Right Compactmag 2026-04-22
Almost a Blasphemy Commonwealmagazine 2026-04-22
Why Do We Suffer? Commonwealmagazine 2026-04-21
Ferrone Liturgy Seven Words Passion Jesus Christ Holy Week Commonwealmagazine 2026-04-21
Post Trump Foreign Policy Alexandria Ocasio Cortez Dissentmagazine 2026-04-21
The Usccbs Just War Error First Things 2026-04-21
Two Visions Of Religious Liberty First Things 2026-04-21
Is Donald Trump Antichrist? The Lamp Magazine 2026-04-13
After Habermas LRB 2026-03-28
Normcore New Left Review 2026-03-28
The Two Nightmares of Jürgen Habermas Persuasion 2026-03-26
Why Russia Is Worried About the Iran War National Interest 2026-03-22
Drone Warfare Has Come to the United States National Interest 2026-03-23
Three Scenarios for a Post-Trump World Foreign Policy 2026-03-22
Iran: Relearning the Importance of Waging a War, Not Just Fighting One CSIS 2026-03-22
The AI-Powered Web Is Eating Itself Noema 2026-03-22
Before Waging War, Consult Historians First Noema 2026-03-22
The Last Gentleman Air Mail 2026-03-22
On Being Midwestern: The Burden of Normality The Hedgehog Review 2026-03-22
You're Not the Boss of Me The Hedgehog Review 2026-03-22
Mass at the Drive-In Theater The Hedgehog Review 2026-03-22
Fighting the last war The New Criterion 2026-03-22
Our plastic moment The New Criterion 2026-03-22
Power Outage Lapham's Quarterly 2026-03-21
Crews Control Granta 2026-03-21
Why Jürgen Habermas Disappeared Foreign Policy 2026-03-21
The Autonomous Battlefield Foreign Affairs 2026-03-14
The New Khamenei Foreign Affairs 2026-03-14
Nasdaq's Shame Keubiko's Musings 2026-03-13
Trump's Last-Gasp Foreign Policy Foreign Policy 2026-03-12
The United States Could Lose the Gulf Foreign Policy 2026-03-12
How the Iran War Could Consolidate China's Energy Dominance Foreign Policy 2026-03-12
No One, Not Even Beijing, Is Getting Through the Strait of Hormuz CSIS 2026-03-07
Marine War Insurance for Hormuz Dries Up as Middle East War Intensifies S&P Global 2026-03-07
$3.7 Billion: Estimated Cost of Epic Fury's First 100 Hours CSIS 2026-03-07
What Does the Iran War Mean for Global Energy Markets? CSIS 2026-03-07
There Is One Crucial Reason We're Talking About Boots on the Ground The New York Times 2026-03-07
You'll regret it Numb at the Lodge 2026-03-07
The Mirage of a New Middle East Foreign Affairs 2026-03-06
Israel After the Iran War Foreign Affairs 2026-03-06
First Thoughts on the New Iran War Commentary 2026-03-01
War on Iran and the Folly of Regime Change Boston Review 2026-03-01
The Problem of Anti-Americanism Commentary 2026-03-01
Half a Million Syrians Didn't Have To Die Commentary 2026-03-01
Hope and Fear in Tehran Persuasion 2026-03-01
Not So 'Mission Accomplished'? The American Conservative 2026-03-01
Zohran Mamdani's $70 Million Grocery Gamble Reason 2026-03-01
For Iran's Regime, Better to Take a Beating than Capitulate War on the Rocks 2026-02-28
U.S. Military in the Middle East: Numbers Behind Trump's Threats Against Iran CSIS 2026-02-28
How Would Iran Respond to a U.S. Attack? CSIS 2026-02-28
Why China Doesn't Want the US and Iran to Make Peace The Diplomat 2026-02-28
Why Iran Will Escalate Foreign Affairs 2026-02-28
Trump's Iran strikes are first step in regime change UnHerd 2026-02-28
The US and Israel strike Iran New Statesman 2026-02-28
Iran unravelled, a little Le Monde Diplomatique 2026-02-28
US: an old-new imperial doctrine Le Monde Diplomatique 2026-02-28
What It Will Take to Change the Regime in Iran Foreign Affairs 2026-02-28
Trump's Shaky Bargains Project Syndicate 2026-02-28
Can Donald Trump Fight a Regime Change War from the Air? The National Interest 2026-02-28
Don't Hold Your Breath on Iranian Democracy The National Interest 2026-02-28
A Kiss in the Killhouse The Lamp Magazine 2026-02-23
Murder in Lyon First Things 2026-02-23
Child's Play Harper's Magazine 2026-02-22
The Plot to Save America Harper's Magazine 2026-02-21
We Are Creatures Who Mourn Granta 2026-02-22
Rebuilding America's Sea Power American Affairs 2026-02-21
The Trump Admin Is Serious About Western Civilization The American Conservative 2026-02-21
A Terrier and a Camel: Milton's Theology London Review of Books 2026-02-21
Why Europe doesn't have a Tesla Works in Progress 2026-02-21