Essays
Everything I've written here.
Published on this site first. Cross-posted to Substack, but this is the original.
Follow the Give
How a writing career actually gets built — the emergent path, the signals worth following, and why the long game is an original voice. Written for the FEE Hazlitt Fellowship.
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How Colonial America’s Literacy Rates Shaped the Revolution
Colonial America hit 70% literacy with no schools, no budget, and no mandates. Two centuries and a trillion dollars a year later, we’ve barely matched it.
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Plus the occasional letter I don't publish anywhere else.