Inventing America: Jefferson's Declaration of Independence
A review of Garry Wills's argument that we have spent two centuries reading Locke over Jefferson's shoulder.
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Writing on security, software, philosophy, and politics.
Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America
A review of Garry Wills's account of the 272 words that swapped the nation's founding document while the nation watched.
Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed
Slobodian and Tarnoff treat Elon Musk as a coherent political-economic formation with a lineage, and get trashed for it. A defense of being perplexed.
On the Ethics of Ambiguity
Simone de Beauvoir's portrait of defective existential attitudes, and how they haunt the memory of youth.
Nixon Agonistes: A Book Review
Rank punditry dressed up as a review of Garry Wills's "Nixon Agonistes".
Get the Fuck Off of GitHub.
Almost two decades of open-source contributions and credibility, erased by GitHub without explanation or recourse. Move to sr.ht.
I Miss Christopher Lasch
Why Lasch's warning about a managerial elite seceding from the rest of the country reads like it was written about right now.
The Dark Web Monitoring Scam
An exposé of the dark-web monitoring industry — and why most of it is theater.
Why Big Tech Companies Don't Give a Damn About You
The brutal economics behind why domestic tech giants serve users garbage and get away with it.