Writing & essays
Ideas built for public life.
Essays, briefings, and public scholarship on power, citizenship, institutions, memory, stewardship, and democratic life.
HAWK · Four-part investigation
The Network
How ideas, organizations, legislation, governing authority, and institutional choices are reshaping American public higher education.
HAWK · Higher Education
General Education Is Being Rewritten
The civic purpose of college is being displaced by workforce outcomes, institutional metrics, and a narrower account of what education is for.
USA @ 250
Me at 50, America at 250
How a Bicentennial quarter prepared me for stewardship, citizenship, and hope over five decades.
The Empires Strike Back · Article V
The Fears Democracies Hide Inside Their Stories
How fear shapes what citizens remember, forget, and defend.
The Empires Strike Back · Article IV
The Empires Strike Back — Article IV
Normalization, exhaustion, and the slow rewriting of what citizens accept as ordinary.
The Empires Strike Back · Article III
The Empires Strike Back — Article III
How institutions manage perception and shape what a democracy is willing to see.
The Empires Strike Back · Article II
The Empires Strike Back — Article II
The psychology of compliance, and how institutions secure consent without force.
The Empires Strike Back · Article I
The Empires Strike Back — Article I
Why power returns, and how democracies forget the lessons they once learned.