The Global Tinderbox
Mapping the New Boundaries of Modern Warfare If you’ve been paying any attention to the...
Thoughts
The Man Who Bought the Sky
There’s a version of this story that gets told in breathless, wide-eyed tones. A visionary....
Selling Sand to the Arabs
There’s an old expression in British business culture. When someone pulls off an almost comically...
We Were the Children Who Knew
An essay on growing up in the shadow of one Cold War, and watching the...
Two Boys at a Track Meet
It was raining in Frisco, Texas. That’s where this starts. Not with race. Not with...
The Distance Between Convenience and Consequence
Most of us begin our day the same way. An alarm sounds from a smartphone...
The Sterile Screen
How We Scrolled Our Way Out of the Future A curious thing happens whenever the...
Living in Different Worlds
(Opening Note, I have lived in Many Worlds Beyond the Military One…) There’s a man...
The Right to Say the Wrong Thing
There’s a thought experiment I keep returning to, and it goes something like this: if...
The World’s Most Expensive Game of “I Wasn’t Touching You”
Somewhere in the rubble of modern geopolitics, someone invented the concept of a ceasefire that...
