Armistice Day: What a Renaming Costs
August 31, 2026
For thirty-six years the United States called 11 November Armistice Day. Then it became Veterans Day, and a specific moment gave way to a general one.
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HistoryVE Day: The War That Was Still Running
August 31, 2026
Germany surrendered on 8 May 1945 and Europe filled the streets. The war had four months left to run, and my grandfather was still a prisoner for every day of it.
HistoryVJ Day: The Record That Only Exists Because Somebody Wrote It Down
August 31, 2026
The surrender took about twenty minutes aboard the USS Missouri. My grandfather had been a prisoner for three years and four months, and the record of it survives only because he sat down afterward and rebuilt it from memory.
GeopoliticsStuck in the Middle: Wars, Weapons, and the Next Thirty Years
August 8, 2026
Connects cognitive decline, civic collapse, military overreach, and geopolitical competition into one structural argument about the next thirty years.
Artificial IntelligencePeacekeeper V3: The Dissolution Wars
July 19, 2026
Fifty thousand years of war, told by the intelligence that ordered it. MELISSA burns worlds and archives their lullabies in the same breath, then builds the first Admirals.
Fantasy FictionThe Eternal War
June 20, 2026
The war between Heaven and Hell has run for eons and neither side can win. Military fiction with real doctrine, told largely by an artificial intelligence that crossed over.
FictionThe Hole
June 16, 2026
Two soldiers, one American and one German, fall into the same shell crater in the Ardennes when the temperature hits minus thirty-two. The cold doesn't care which side they're on, and neither can survive the night alone.
FictionThe Wall
June 16, 2026
A corporal who hangs his lantern on a dead man's hand protruding from the trench wall has stopped flinching at any of it: the rats, the men packed into the mud, the comrade who took three days to die where…
MayMemorial Day
June 14, 2026
Memorial Day is the last Monday in May. Why it honors those who served, including police and firefighters, and why their stories deserve to be recorded.
Book ReviewsAtonement
June 3, 2026
A child's catastrophic lie and the lifetime spent trying to atone for it, spanning a 1935 English estate, the retreat to Dunkirk, and wartime London. Beautifully written and structurally daring, with a final turn that reframes the entire book and…
Book Reviews1984
June 3, 2026
The novel that gave us Big Brother, doublethink, thoughtcrime, and the memory hole, a towering dystopia of totalitarianism, surveillance, and the war on truth itself. A masterpiece of political imagination whose warnings have only grown more relevant, and one of…
Book ReviewsCatch-22
June 3, 2026
The novel that gave the language the phrase catch-22 itself: a savage, absurdist masterpiece of war and bureaucracy, darkly hilarious and genuinely furious beneath the comedy. Its deliberately disorienting structure rewards patience. A landmark of satire, held from the top…