The Wars We Tell Ourselves
The Good War
On the Eastern Front that Americans don't know, the war crimes committed in the name of defeating fascism, and what the mythology of the best war costs us in our understanding of the wars that followed
The Cartographer
The Wars We Tell Ourselves
The Frame
On how America's geographic insulation, its entertainment apparatus, and managed journalism built a population systematically unable to see its own wars from the outside
The Wars We Tell Ourselves
The Forgotten War
On why America forgot Korea, what the air campaign actually did to the peninsula, and how a 70-year armistice became the world's most dangerous unresolved conflict
The Phenomenon
They Died for Telling
On the researchers, witnesses, and insiders who did not survive their knowledge: the geologist who lost his fingers underground and was found dead weeks later, the astronomer who died on UFO Day, the Navy researcher whose 'suicide' left more questions than it answered, and the full toolkit the suppr
The Phenomenon
The Misinformation Machine
On the Air Force intelligence agent who deliberately destroyed a civilian researcher, the doctrine of the limited hangout, why some of the most compelling disclosure figures may be the most managed, and how you hide the truth by surrounding it with enough noise that the signal cannot be heard.
The Phenomenon
Roswell and the Architecture of Secrecy
On the press release that lasted six hours, the weather balloon that fooled no one, Project Blue Book's institutional purpose, the Robertson Panel's actual mandate, and how the American national security apparatus built a suppression system that has outlasted every administration that created it.
The Phenomenon
Gods, Ancestors, Visitors
On the hypothesis that the entities described as gods in the ancient record, as angels and demons in the medieval one, and as extraterrestrials in the modern one are the same phenomenon rendered in the available vocabulary of each era — and what the mystery tradition has always understood that the s
The Phenomenon
Congress Wakes Up
On the 2017 New York Times story that changed the official narrative, the former intelligence official who testified under oath about recovered craft and non-human biologics, the senators who couldn't get their own government to answer their questions, and what managed disclosure looks like when you
The Phenomenon
Before the Saucers
On the pre-modern contact record: the prophet's wheel, the flying cities of the Vedas, the tribe that knew about a star no one could see, the pilots who chased lights no government claimed, and why the phenomenon did not begin in New Mexico in 1947.
Schumacher
Small Is Beautiful
On the Economics of Enoughness and the Tyranny of the Gigantic
Illich
Tools for Conviviality
On Illich's diagnosis of the counterproductive institution, the two watersheds of industrial development, and the radical claim that beyond a certain threshold the tool destroys the very value it was built to deliver
The Contrarians
Tools for Conviviality
Ivan Illich and the Tools That Use Their Users