Husband, Dad, Emergency Medicine physician, Veteran.
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While folding laundry recently, I allowed myself a YouTube indulgence and began rewatching Tom Hanks’ HBO miniseries adaptation of Stephen Ambrose’s Band of Brothers. If you have never seen it, do yourself a favor and add the story of a company of paratroopers in the European Theater of Operations to the list.
Medical School teaches you a lot of things, from the bones in the foot to how the Loop of Henle makes you urinate.
Combat underlines strength and exposes fear in its rawest form.
There is something about personal loyalty to Donald Trump that is deeply unmanly, of which Todd Blanche is only the most recent example in the list of sycophants Pete Hegseth has on his Signal group chat.
Luigi Mangione pleaded guilty yesterday, not to murder, but to two federal stalking charges arising from the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
There are a lot of theories floating around about the recent success of progressive candidates this cycle and last night (despite the narrowest victory possible in Wisconsin of a normie Dem).
In Iraq, during the war I fought in, the imbalance in military power was almost comical.
The campaign against Anthony Fauci is a campaign against memory: the memory of what the nation went through in 2020-22 to be sure, but also against my memories of that period, and yours as well.
It’s primary day in Michigan, and on the ballot are a middle-of-the-road, unexciting moderate Democrat backed by moderate Democratic money in Stevens, and a DSA-adjacent candidate with an economic message in El-Sayed.
I've been saying the same thing for a decade
War is different because, unlike almost every other act of government, it authorizes the deliberate taking of human life.
As I write this, I’m fortunate enough to be on Oahu, looking across Turtle Bay at the Opana radio station.
What Hegseth Didn't Say
