Thoughts on the importance and challenges of American civil discourse and potential solutions from Plato’s Gorgias.
Let’s Talk, America
Orator: A New Imperial Presidency
Our checks and balances have kept the Presidency in check for the past 250 years. Can they survive the next four?
The Sunset of Pax Americana
Inside the self-inflicted destruction of America’s global prestige.
War 2000 Years Later, “At 15 I Joined the Army, Only at 80 Did I Finally Return”
How we can relate to a 2000-year-old poem.
The Law Gives Us Answers; Literature Gives Us Nuance
The Count of Monte Cristo is more than just a tale of revenge—it is a story that questions the boundaries of revenge, the morality of retribution, and the true meaning of justice, revealing literature’s ability to capture the nuance of the human condition beyond legal verdicts.
The Texas Orator 