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The Work
CUBA
Opinion · Foreign Policy · Cuba
SYMPATHY
IS NOT
A FOREIGN
POLICY

The moral case for U.S. intervention in Cuba — military, economic, and diplomatic.

The Argument That Is 127 Years Overdue March 2026
Personal Essay · Mental Health
The Slowest
Way to Come
Apart

The culture doesn't break you. It teaches you to break quietly.

On Silence, Armor, and What EMDR Broke Open March 2026
Data · Politics · Civil Rights
Voter ID
& The
Jim Crow
Myth
A Data-Driven Reality Check February 2026
AI
Opinion · Authorship · AI
The Double Standard Nobody Wants to Talk About
We've accepted ghostwriters for centuries. February 2026

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About

Veteran. Criminal investigator. Security expert. Graphic designer. Writer. Student of everything.

Two decades as a federal criminal investigator, including executive protection for the Secretary of Defense, have taught me that critical thinking matters more than credentials. So do cultural and ideological differences: I've worked and traveled across 25 countries on six continents, and came of age in communist Cuba before building a life in America.

This is a space for serious thinking without academic gatekeeping. The most interesting ideas live at the intersections. I write about the ones worth arguing about.