Notes
Shorter pieces. Rougher thinking. A record of the days. Not essays. Not polished. What I read that struck me. Thoughts on what I am working on. Notes on books and passages.
11 May 2026: Trump cuts will kill
ImpactCounter projects 7.1 million additional malaria cases in children and 53,577 child malaria deaths in one year.
7 May 2026: The War in the Sentence
Washington wants to move the Iran war into the past tense.
5 May 2026: When a Majority Feels Itself Becoming a Minority
In the United States, for the first time since the Declaration of Independence, white Americans are projected to lose their majority status. I use the term non-Hispanic White Americans because that is the label the U.S. Census Bureau uses.
4 May 2026: Oil and the Cost of Passage
WTI crude is above a hundred dollars a barrel this morning. The move is sharp enough to matter. But the price is not the whole story.
23 April 2026 - Marx and the spectre.
Marx's answer was plain. Publish openly. State what we believe. Meet the nursery tale with a manifesto.
20 April 2026 - Trump and Iran
This week Trump's ceasefire with Iran ends. I call it his ceasefire. He signed his name to it. He announced it on Truth Social and he called it a total and complete victory and he said it more than once.
16 April 2026 — The American project.
The American project is failing. I do not say this with joy and I do not say it with surprise. I say it because it is true and because saying it plain is the only honest thing left.