The Long View
Long-form essays and deep research, published serially.
Every essay
How a constitution actually breaks
How a constitution actually breaks
The historical patterns of constitutional collapse, and what every healthy democracy gets wrong about its own resilience.
The deep argument against AGI optimism
The deep argument against AGI optimism
A 12,000-word essay on why "AGI by 2027" is not as obvious as the tech press claims.
Letter from a small town
Letter from a small town
A short essay on the year I left the city.
The quiet death of the local bookshop
The quiet death of the local bookshop
It is not what you think. The villain is not Amazon.
On reading the same book twice
On reading the same book twice
The most underrated form of reading is the second read of a book you thought you knew.
Against the productivity stack
Against the productivity stack
A defence of doing one thing at a time, on paper, with a real pen.
The empire that would not end
The empire that would not end
On the strange afterlife of dead empires, and what they tell us about our own.
What the calculator teaches
What the calculator teaches
Every tool that automates judgement weakens the judgement it automates.
Notes on attention, October
Notes on attention, October
Reading notes, walking notes, kitchen notes. A month of attention practice.
The patience of long-form
The patience of long-form
Why the slowest writing on the internet is suddenly the most-read.