While male health seemed to bounce back, mortality and disabilities in women continue to rise above earlier trends and are not expected to solve themselves soon. This might cause a fundamental change in the dynamics of the gender mortality gap.
A Hidden Post-Pandemic Decline of Female Health Read Journal Article
There is every reason to be proud to be an American. But with that must come the humility to recognize that this country can be “more perfect.” The pathway there is through a deeper understanding of the Founding.
The Meaning of the Semiquincentennial Read Journal Article
While the specific figures combine data from multiple sources, the trend is undeniable: in 1950, over half of 30-year-olds were married homeowners. By 2025, some analysts project that number as low as 13%.
The Boomer Mirage Read Journal Article
I’ve never been as excited and nervous about a new book of mine. Each chapter covers an animating spirit of the historical American ethos: respect, hard work, pioneering, gratitude, patience, faith, independence, forbearance, and so on.
A Small Book About Real Life Read Journal Article
Welcome to the SSRI marriage apocalypse: a phenomenon so widespread that entire online communities have formed to support its casualties. Spouses gathering in digital refugee camps, comparing notes about partners who transformed into unrecognizable strangers after starting antidepressants.
Your Spouse Started Antidepressants and Became a Stranger Read Journal Article
Creating human substitutes with AI is technically clever and somehow deeply pathetic. More so when effort is made to convince us it is better than the real thing. Many will fall for it, and in the process, degrade humanity itself.
Reclaiming the Beauty of the Spheres Read Journal Article
If “dead enough” becomes a metric, the countdown has already started—not just for the patient, but for our collective faith in medicine’s ability to serve something higher than its own efficiency.
When “Dead Enough” Becomes a Metric Read Journal Article
This isn’t just about Eddington. It’s about all of us. When civility disappears, when personal morality gives way to mass messaging and digital spectacle – along with self-victimhood worship, we lose not just our mooring, but our communities.
“Eddington” and the Death of Civility Read Journal Article
Most people hear ‘modern slavery’ and picture trafficking victims or sweatshop workers—suffering that’s clearly visible, obviously wrong. What if the most effective slavery in history isn’t hidden—but public, celebrated, and defended by the very people it enslaves?
The Modern Slave Read Journal Article
All of this has to go, to be replaced by mediated experiences scripted by large institutions both public and private. This way, we are all dependent. Our lives can be turned on and off depending on the will of our masters.
Freedom in a Post-Covid World Read Journal Article
Admitting stupidity is the third rail of the American psyche. In addition, I have found that stupid actions tend to be based on rigid ideology or fear, both of which are hard to overcome.
Needed: Stupid Anonymous Read Journal Article
We can remind ourselves, and them: we already belong. Not to the algorithm, not to the audience, not to the machine—but to ourselves, to each other, to the earth, to whatever rhythm once made being human feel like enough.
The Golden Idol Machine Read Journal Article
