Letters from the editor

Substack. Editorials that go out with each edition.

August 2026

I’ve been reading Nassim Taleb’s Antifragile (which, once you get past the mild MBA-adjacent aversion, is great) and Plato’s Laws. If you’ve read Taleb you know he’s pretty rabidly anti-Plato. I think this is rather unfair, but I won’t be talking about that, at least not…

July 2026

This is an odd service. So let me start you off with some odd observations, which, if you are like me, you may not find quite so odd. First: the shape of our thought, knowingly or unknowingly, is deeply shaped by our immersion in the echoes and din of the modern moment…

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