3 dispatches
Essays
Long-form writing on international order, political theory, resistance, and the places where software meets geopolitics.
Proximity, Method, and the Marginalization of Black Women in Political Thought
April 18, 2026
This essay argues that what separates stronger from weaker accounts in Black political thought is not proximity to experience, but whether gender is treated as structurally constitutive of the analysis—comparing Cooper, Wells, and Du Bois.
Political TheoryMethodologyCanon
Art and Dissent: How Art Reflects American Politics and Decisions
April 21, 2025
An exploration of how art has historically reflected dissent, challenged injustice, and exposed the impacts of American political decisions.
Political TheoryCultureUS Politics
Failure of the Liberal World Order
April 21, 2025
This essay explores the internal contradictions, geopolitical limitations, and multipolar pressures that challenge the foundations of the liberal international order.
GeopoliticsIR TheoryOrder