Recent writing

  1. I Did Not Stop Being Anti-Globalist. The Left Did.

    I opposed globalism when I belonged to the left, and I still oppose it now that I am on the right. What changed was not my suspicion of concentrated power, but the political movement willing to defend it.

    • localism
    • anti-globalism
    • subsidiarity
    • Catholic social teaching
    • decentralization
    • political realignment
  2. Hello, World. It's Live.

    A quick first post to confirm that the new personal writing system is up and running.

    • Site notes

From the archive

Older posts republished here retain their original publication dates and source links.

  1. Haikus for the moment

    One moment and a Haiku ++ Poetry from before now ++ Now in the archive

  2. Déchiré

    It was then I saw her run into the terminal. She was out of breath and shaking, she was looking around for someone at the ticket counters. I laughed under my breath at how utterly silly she looked…

  3. Collatz Conjecture Ramblings.

    An informal exploration of an inductive approach to the Collatz conjecture, using modular arithmetic to ask whether every starting value must eventually fall below itself.

  4. 5 insanely great books about mathematics you should read.

    Five accessible books that explore the history, philosophy, landmark theorems, beautiful proofs, and lived experience of mathematics.

    • books
    • Fun
    • history
    • interesting
    • list
    • Mathematics
    • Philosophy
    • subjects
    • theory
    • top 5
  5. Chaos and Order

    A reflection on how chaos supplies energy, order provides enabling constraints, and their balance turns motion into useful work and human progress.

    • Chaos theory
    • Complex system
    • Discordianism
    • Eris
    • motion
    • Order
    • science