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I write about philosophy, social science, technology, and the independent life of the mind.

I was a professor of Political Science at the University of Southampton from 2014 to 2019. My academic and public writing has appeared in International Studies Quarterly, the British Journal of Political Science, Foreign Affairs, and the New Statesman. I later founded Other Life and Indie Scholars.

This site is the complete archive of my published writing.

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The Supreme Court Should Be an Ensemble of LLMs

LLMs can process human language with formal rigor—the function of Supreme Court justices.
The Bari Weiss Strategy

Notes on a $150M playbook that's never been written down
In Domestic War, Beware the Rabble

Notes on an "unfortunate season" of civil conflict
Alexander Karp's Iron Cage: A Review of The Technological Republic

I wanted to love it, but Alexander Karp's new book is a mess of contradictions and a bloody revenge by the Frankfurt School against the school of American Optimism.
Plato's Playbook

Influence and Intellect in the Ancient World

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