Essays
The ten articles state the argument; these essays take it walking. They can be read in any order, agreed with in any fraction, and quoted without permission — nothing here is anyone’s property.
A Short History of Not Joining
Diogenes, Montaigne, Spinoza, Weil, Havel: twenty-four centuries of people who kept their verdicts — a constellation, not a club.
The Package Deal
Why your opinion on tax policy arrives stapled to your opinion on bioethics: the bundle economics of belief, and how to shop à la carte.
On Flags
Jerseys, pins, frames, and bio lines: what allegiance tokens actually say, read through the sharpest instrument available — a greengrocer's window in Prague.
A Field Guide to Recruiters
Seven species of enrollment machinery, with identifying marks and countermeasures. You are being recruited more often than you are being greeted.
Twelve Questions, Answered in Grey
A demonstration: twelve charged questions answered the only honest way — conditions attached, verdicts left to the reader.
The Empty Lodge
The joiners' halls stood for something real, and their emptying left a real hole. On loneliness, third places, and rebuilding warmth without oaths.