Truth with Teeth
In 2019, then–President Donald Trump made a remark that quickly became infamous. Responding to criticism from several progressive lawmakers, he suggested they should “go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came.” The comment was widely condemned as racist. It was crude, imprecise, and rhetorically abrasive, flattening individual...
America is not collapsing because it lacks good values. It is faltering because it no longer understands why those values worked or where they came from. We have spent decades defending the fruit of our civilization - peace, prosperity, liberty, innovation - while neglecting the root that made those things possible. And a tree cannot...
Space got thin out here. Not empty. Never empty. But thin in the way of a breath held too long, or a secret no one wanted to say out loud. The usual gentle sea of stars gave way to hushed clusters, lonely systems hanging on the far rim like tired lanterns. The Fogrunner slipped through...
HYPERSPACE – HALF A CYCLE AFTER AZURYN Hyperspace streaked around the Fogrunner in long violet ribbons, rippling like curtains blown by some celestial wind. The hum of the drive pulsed through the hull, through the floors, through Julian Fog’s bare feet as he stood in front of the cockpit mirror adjusting a shimmering cloak that...
Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord… -Isaiah 1:18 America was founded on a paradox both political and sacred: that man, though fallen, was capable of governing himself under God. The Founders believed that liberty without virtue was license, and virtue without reason was superstition. So they built a republic upon two...