Every January arrives carrying an unreasonable burden. We ask it to reset habits, clarify purpose, and somehow compensate for everything… Read more
Month: December 2025
The Moral Difference Between Effort and Outcome
American life has developed a convenient habit: we treat outcomes as moral verdicts. If you succeed, you must have earned… Read more
What We Learned by Watching What Didn’t Break
Every December, we make the same mistake. We treat the year as something to summarize rather than something to absorb…. Read more
The Machinery of Democracy Released in Hardback
The Machinery of Democracy, a new nonfiction work by Dr. Cary Woods, has been released in hardback. The book examines… Read more
The Case for Shared Stewardship in Artificial Intelligence
American public life has a habit of turning every emerging technology into a cultural battleground. Railroads were once instruments of… Read more
What Tech Cannot Replace During the Holidays
The year did not collapse. That is not nothing. A school quietly opened a food pantry so families could pick… Read more
Blue Bubbles, Green Bubbles, and the Accidental Genius of the Family Group Chat
Something quietly miraculous has happened, and almost no one stops to admire it. Entire families now gather in the same… Read more
Who Is Rand Paul and Why You Want to Know
Politics tends to flatten people. Over time, complex lives get reduced to a handful of talking points, a voting record,… Read more
The Unlikely Dignity of Mike Pence
Hoosier politics has long operated on a kind of practical decency: the conviction that even when national passions run hot,… Read more
Big Yellow Taxi Economics: A Letter of Gratitude to Jerome Powell
Big Yellow Taxi begins with a lament. Joni Mitchell warns that “you do not know what you’ve until it is… Read more