General Essays

My first major job after college was working for an organization called the Computer & Communications Industry Association in Washington. It was basically a policy and advocacy group for computer and regional telephone companies that lobbied for policies that would promote the confluence of computers with phones. Back in the

I made the mistake a couple months ago of giving one of my essays too evocative a title. I wrote something about the endless Jeffrey Epstein talk and the ways we turn the abuse of girls into entertainment in a piece I called “Nonstop Creepiness.” It’s no longer on

If I take P=70 and add it to P=75, do they create something interesting, or am I just imagining it? And if I’m getting warmer, what’s the path Veronique must take to find Alexandre? UPDATE: So, as a potential answer to my inquiry, I have seen

If I were ever in a position to be interviewed for a subway hot take, it would be this: it’s much harder to be right than to be wrong. If you’re wrong about something, once you recognize it, you apologize. It’s the easiest thing in the world.

In my day job, I seek out potential speakers for events and also material that could be used in speeches. Lately I have been especially interested in finding interesting material about peace. I came across a wonderful speech given by novelist Haruki Murakami when he accepted the Jerusalem Prize in

We are all creatures of our times, but it’s important to remember that someone like Montaigne was as well. As scary as our current moment seems, how does it compare to France during religious wars of the 16th century? It is estimated that 2-4 million people died during the