Archive
Everything, in order.
The complete collection — 6 essays, newest first.
2026
Jun 21
The Gay Rights Movement's Overreach
What the Movement Built, and What It Is Tearing Down The gay rights movement began with a demand that was ethically unassailable: equal treatment under the law regardless of sexual…
5 min
Jun 19
A Crime Without a Victim
The Prohibition We Refuse to See The United States tried alcohol prohibition for thirteen years. Consumption did fall — but at a cost so catastrophic and so disproportionate to the…
5 min
Jun 18
When Consent Becomes Legally Irrelevant
The Law That Solves Nothing Denmark is considering making it a criminal offence for a taxi driver to have sex with a customer. The proposal emerged after a small number of reported…
5 min
Jun 18
The Least-Bad Arrangement
The Sacred Cow Democracy licenses state coercion through electoral aggregation — through pluralities, slim majorities, low-turnout elections, and coalition deals struck behind clos…
6 min
Jun 18
Dumping Toxins into the Psychological Environment
The Loudest Voice in the Room Advertising, stripped of its euphemisms, is the practice of paying to alter someone's behaviour without their informed consent. The mechanisms are wel…
5 min
May 28
The Machine That Listens
We built tools that finish our sentences. The harder question is what happens to the thoughts we no longer have to finish ourselves.
7 min