Essays

Occasional writing on ideas worth arguing about — language, knowledge, belief, and the shape of things.

• Poisoning the Well On the collective nature of knowledge, and what we owe each other when we speak.
• The Perils of the Profit Motive Why systems built for profit drift away from what we actually need — and what it would take to correct them.
• What's My Beef With Zionism? On the difference between critiquing an ideology and hating a people — a personal reckoning.
• Who We Could Ice On *remigration*, the right's latest euphemism — and a counter-proposal for who actually needs replacing.
• With All Due Respect Should I respect your religious beliefs?
• Why I Roll My Eyes On the MAHA movement, RFK Jr., and the difference between genuine skepticism and doubt stripped of its obligations.