Essays

The method, run in public.

One essay at a time, taking a real and documented decision about how people are recognised — a company that built a ladder or removed one, an institution that lowered a standard, a trade that raised one — and running the book's three marks over it, in the open. Not a summary of the book. The book's argument, applied to something you can go and check.

27 August 2026

The List That Does Not Say

A Wi-Fi failure destroyed Washington's bar exam in July. The state's answer was to admit some of the stranded without it — and then to order that the public record of admissions not show who was which. The second decision is the expensive one.