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Essay Archive

Essays I have read, organized by year.

2026

Title Source Date
After Habermas LRB 3/28/2026
Normcore New Left Review 3/28/2026
The Two Nightmares of Jürgen Habermas Persuasion 3/26/2026
Why Russia Is Worried About the Iran War National Interest 03/22/2026
Drone Warfare Has Come to the United States National Interest 03/23/2026
Three Scenarios for a Post-Trump World Foreign Policy 03/22/2026
Iran: Relearning the Importance of Waging a War, Not Just Fighting One CSIS 03/22/2026
The AI-Powered Web Is Eating Itself Noema 03/22/2026
Before Waging War, Consult Historians First Noema 03/22/2026
The Last Gentleman Air Mail 03/22/2026
On Being Midwestern: The Burden of Normality The Hedgehog Review 03/22/2026
You're Not the Boss of Me The Hedgehog Review 03/22/2026
Mass at the Drive-In Theater The Hedgehog Review 03/22/2026
Fighting the last war The New Criterion 03/22/2026
Our plastic moment The New Criterion 03/22/2026
Power Outage Lapham's Quarterly 03/21/2026
Crews Control Granta 03/21/2026
Why Jürgen Habermas Disappeared Foreign Policy 03/21/2026
The Autonomous Battlefield Foreign Affairs 03/14/2026
The New Khamenei Foreign Affairs 03/14/2026
Nasdaq's Shame Keubiko's Musings 03/13/2026
Trump's Last-Gasp Foreign Policy Foreign Policy 03/12/2026
The United States Could Lose the Gulf Foreign Policy 03/12/2026
How the Iran War Could Consolidate China's Energy Dominance Foreign Policy 03/12/2026
No One, Not Even Beijing, Is Getting Through the Strait of Hormuz CSIS 03/07/2026
Marine War Insurance for Hormuz Dries Up as Middle East War Intensifies S&P Global 03/07/2026
$3.7 Billion: Estimated Cost of Epic Fury's First 100 Hours CSIS 03/07/2026
What Does the Iran War Mean for Global Energy Markets? CSIS 03/07/2026
There Is One Crucial Reason We're Talking About Boots on the Ground The New York Times 03/07/2026
You'll regret it Numb at the Lodge 03/07/2026
The Mirage of a New Middle East Foreign Affairs 03/06/2026
Israel After the Iran War Foreign Affairs 03/06/2026
First Thoughts on the New Iran War Commentary 03/01/2026
War on Iran and the Folly of Regime Change Boston Review 03/01/2026
The Problem of Anti-Americanism Commentary 03/01/2026
Half a Million Syrians Didn't Have To Die Commentary 03/01/2026
Hope and Fear in Tehran Persuasion 03/01/2026
Not So 'Mission Accomplished'? The American Conservative 03/01/2026
Zohran Mamdani's $70 Million Grocery Gamble Reason 03/01/2026
For Iran's Regime, Better to Take a Beating than Capitulate War on the Rocks 02/28/2026
U.S. Military in the Middle East: Numbers Behind Trump's Threats Against Iran CSIS 02/28/2026
How Would Iran Respond to a U.S. Attack? CSIS 02/28/2026
Why China Doesn't Want the US and Iran to Make Peace The Diplomat 02/28/2026
Why Iran Will Escalate Foreign Affairs 02/28/2026
Trump's Iran strikes are first step in regime change UnHerd 02/28/2026
The US and Israel strike Iran New Statesman 02/28/2026
Iran unravelled, a little Le Monde Diplomatique 02/28/2026
US: an old-new imperial doctrine Le Monde Diplomatique 02/28/2026
What It Will Take to Change the Regime in Iran Foreign Affairs 02/28/2026
Trump's Shaky Bargains Project Syndicate 02/28/2026
Can Donald Trump Fight a Regime Change War from the Air? The National Interest 02/28/2026
Don't Hold Your Breath on Iranian Democracy The National Interest 02/28/2026
A Kiss in the Killhouse The Lamp Magazine 02/23/2026
Murder in Lyon First Things 02/23/2026
Child's Play Harper's Magazine 02/22/2026
The Plot to Save America Harper's Magazine 02/21/2026
We Are Creatures Who Mourn Granta 02/22/2026
Rebuilding America's Sea Power American Affairs 02/21/2026
The Trump Admin Is Serious About Western Civilization The American Conservative 02/21/2026
A Terrier and a Camel: Milton's Theology London Review of Books 02/21/2026
Why Europe doesn't have a Tesla Works in Progress 02/21/2026