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.

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Projects

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    Consilience

    A sourced record of the damage this administration is doing to public health, to the rule of law, to the institutions meant to check power.