Former professor. PhD. I left academia in 2019 to write and teach independently full-time.
Oct 8, 2025
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6 min read
Notes on a $150M playbook that's never been written down
Sep 22, 2025
3 min read
Notes on an "unfortunate season" of civil conflict
Jul 7, 2025
8 min read
A preview from my forthcoming book and an upcoming weekend in the woods.
May 14, 2025
10 min read
Stendhal, Lacan, Gutenberg, Nick Land and more
Feb 24, 2025
9 min read
On Alex Karp, Hélène Cixous, Gorgias, Sarah McNally, and More
Feb 17, 2025
Notes for the week
Feb 2, 2025
5 min read
The final installment of our 2024 annual letter.
Jan 21, 2025
An annual review in 3 parts.
Jan 9, 2025
7 min read
Jan 7, 2025
An annual review in 3 parts (with a shipping update on The Independent Scholar).
Nov 25, 2024
A close reading of St. John blows Nietzsche out of the water. 3 highlights from the latest episode of the Other Life podcast.
Aug 10, 2024
And how masterpieces are made.
Aug 6, 2024
4 min read
You are allowed to go straight to true knowledge of the highest things.
Aug 3, 2024
And the second most fateful bookstore encounter in history...
Aug 2, 2024
On Nietzsche's fatal mistake
Jul 30, 2024
Jul 23, 2024
Nietzsche, Marinetti, Ecuador, and my new print book coming soon
Jun 29, 2024
Aristotle and the Secret of Esoteric Boomerism
Jun 23, 2024
And online, too.
Jun 10, 2024
On speech, truth, and the printed word
May 5, 2024
And the accelerating rate of paradigm turnover
Apr 22, 2024
News and updates, the essays of Samuel Johnson, and more...
Mar 31, 2024
"Therefore let us keep the Festival, not with the old bread leavened with malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth." —Corinthians 5:8
Mar 16, 2024
Multipolar aesthetic warfare, cruelty, marriage, and Charlotte Perriand
Mar 10, 2024
What could enjoy the Mandate of Heaven more than an autopoietic truth system offensive to all prestigious consensus and immune to human manipulation?