When the Byline Overtakes the Byline
Broadsides. Dated pieces written in full voice — satire, polemic, testimony from the household. The essays argue and carry their falsifiers; these say the thing outright.
- September 17, 2026
What Feels So Gravitational About Late September 2026?
Civilizational collapse superimposed upon civilizational rise — and the crack does not stop outside us, but sends a painful deep crack right through our foundational center. Irony becomes the sole leavening agent through the maze of tragedy.
Read the broadside - September 16, 2026
Both Feet in the Fray
A frame for what the Founders would make of artificial intelligence — not their ratification of it, but the method by which they decided, inherited by a descendant who decides for better or for worse, as they did.
Read the broadside - September 16, 2026
The Founders the AI Named
Asked which founders validate American AI leadership, the model first named the founders of AI companies. Corrected to the Founding Fathers, it recited real principles from Madison, Hamilton, Jefferson, and Washington — and quietly invented a Jefferson line of its own.
Read the broadside - September 16, 2026
Naming Is Not the Thing Itself
A closed circuit manufactures its own authority. A style manual would find nothing to keep in Finnegans Wake. Both mistake the label for the work.
Read the broadside - September 16, 2026
Best of Times, Worst of Times, Times of Wonder, Times of Dread
The collapse of Humpty Dumpty's house of digital cards. A better set of card players holds a better set of cards.
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