• Update on Severance

    So, I’ve taken several days off the Severance project and wanted to give an update. Beyond my recent focus on the political economy, which is real and may lead to more rants from me, I’ve also run into some exhaustion in writing about the AppleTV+ show. The central issue is this — there’s a lot…

  • Reposting Surkov

    I want to repost here something that I wrote 4 1/2 years ago about a Putin political ringleader named Vladislav Surkov, because I think what we have seen from the second Trump administration is following this playbook completely, right down to the manufactured economic crises, all designed to keep Trump center stage in the economy….

  • Translations Update

    I have completed my first round of translations, all of the Montaigne Volume 1 essays have completed round one. I’m going to go back now and standardize my process, which I invented on the fly somewhere in the middle. Once that is done, I will move on to applying any new thoughts that came up…

  • New Project: Severance Blog

    I’ve taken the last couple days to begin some Spring Cleaning of my blogs and to open up a new project. My next blog-to-book project is about the AppleTV+ series Severance, and you can find it at severanceblog.com. As for all of my other content, I’m in the process of bringing it all under this…