Perspectives

The Permanent Things

A body of work on ordered liberty, civic virtue, national security, and the discipline of clear thinking. Written from experience, not theory.

February 10, 2026

When the Horizon Moves

Over the past year I buried my father and two mentors. Around the same time, our youngest prepared to graduate. None of those events created instability, but something shifted internally.

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February 8, 2026

Fentanyl, Self-Government, and the Obligation to Think

A constitutional republic does not survive on passion, outrage, or slogans. It survives on a populace educated in the harder discipline of understanding systems, incentives, tradeoffs, and consequences.

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January 18, 2026

A Palimpsest Generation

We were formed in one world and matured in another, not by choice but by timing. What we became did not replace what we were. It was written over it.

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January 3, 2026

Venezuela Crossed the Line

What is unfolding in Venezuela is not a political talking point. It is a strategic crisis in the Western Hemisphere, one that carries consequences far beyond Caracas.

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December 24, 2025

When Volume Replaces Evidence

At some point the Epstein saga ceased to be about justice and became a case study in how modern narratives are constructed through repetition rather than proof.

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November 22, 2025

Before the Fall

America is not facing one crisis. It is facing several at the same time. Great powers rarely fall from a single blow. They fall when the pillars that hold them up erode together.

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November 16, 2025

Losing the Standard

A movement that trades truth for virality is not clever. It is surrendering its most powerful asset. The Right cannot out-lie the Left, and it should not try.

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November 8, 2025

The Perpetual Promise

What begins as a hand up too easily becomes a handout without end, and the noble desire to help the poor slowly corrodes into a system that sustains poverty itself.

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October 28, 2025

The Erosion of Restraint

The founders believed the republic would endure only so long as its citizens practiced the quiet art of restraint. When a people lose that habit, freedom does not expand. It collapses under the weight of its own appetites.

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October 15, 2025

The Discipline of Discernment

Discernment, the ability to tell true from false, is not an instinct. It is a discipline. In an age that prizes reaction over reflection, we must recover the habit of slowing down and testing what we hear.

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October 8, 2025

The Fight for the Permanent Things

Some battles never end; they simply move to new terrain. One of those enduring battles is moral: whether truth, virtue, and order still have a place in a civilization that has forgotten what permanence means.

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