Ol' Tin Cup
Ol' Tin Cup
Open Borders And Closed Gates
I saw it again this morning—a protester in $180 athleisure, hoisting a “NO BORDERS” sign outside a neighborhood wrapped tighter than a Vatican vault. The ...
May 1, 2025
Ol' Tin Cup
What is a woman?
My boy’s in high school now, God help him. Came home talking about “decolonizing calculus,” which sounds less like math and more like a ransom ...
April 29, 2025
Field Reports
Field Reports
Abandoned by Ideals: The Innocent and the Left’s Experiment
On August 22, 2025, Iryna Zarutska boarded a light-rail train in Charlotte, North Carolina. She was 23 years old, a Ukrainian refugee who had fled ...
October 2, 2025
Field Reports
The Tyranny Of Silent Agreement
I. Introduction: The Lie Agreed Upon In a modest fruit shop in Communist Czechoslovakia, a grocer hangs a sign in his window: Workers of the ...
July 27, 2025
Field Reports
From Viral to Verdict: Creators Who Crossed the Line for Views
A recent spate of news articles about content creators gone rogue has me echoing Marvin Gay and the 4 Non Blondes’ question: What’s going on? ...
May 13, 2025
Grunt Dispatches
Grunt Dispatches
Flow State.
Ask any seasoned musician about their finest moment on stage and you’ll rarely get a story about perfect technique. What you’ll hear instead is something ...
December 7, 2025
Grunt Dispatches
Two Americas: The Algorithm of Dehumanization
I didn’t pay much attention to Charlie Kirk when he was alive, I caught a few videos of him over the years, but Charlie’s youth ...
September 12, 2025
Grunt Dispatches
Journalism’s Costume Party
How the News Got Pretty, Paid, and Pointless. Once upon a time, the measure of a reporter wasn’t polish or pedigree — it was whether ...
August 31, 2025







