Analytical essays on epistemics, expertise, and institutions — and projects built with AI as a collaborator, starting with Consilience.
Recent essays
- essay · Aug 2026
After Fluency
Writing has always been both a signal of thinking and a means of developing it. AI-assisted writing breaks that coupling — eroding fluency as a proxy for sound thinking, and threatening the process by which we build the capacity to think at all.
- essay · Aug 2026
Beyond the "Worst of the Worst": The Human Cost of the Detention Surge
Immigration enforcement policy reaches much further than its stated rationale of targeting violent offenders. This essay looks at what the policy actually covers and whom it actually affects — a substantially different picture, in service of accuracy rather than an argument against enforcement itself.
- essay · Aug 2026
Checks Without Illusions
The American constitutional system separates power across branches, but omits an enforcement question: what actually makes the checks function, and what happens when someone treats constitutional norms as optional. An honest accounting of which restraints have real teeth and which depend on voluntary compliance.
Projects
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Consilience
A multi-lane accumulation-timeline app for tracking the volume and density of change across cross-linked topics.