Charting the Provenance of Paradigms
Clarity emerges where chaos once reigned.
Perception, Proportion, and Duration in the Governance of Action
An inquiry into the operational structure of prudence as treated by Emerson, Sun Tzu, and Machiavelli. The essay dismantles the false synonymy between prudence and caution, reconstructing it as a compound faculty of perception, proportional judgment, and temporal reasoning.
March 2026Boylston Street is an independent publication. The name refers to a corridor in Boston that was constructed from salt marsh in the nineteenth century and has been rebuilt in every generation since. The street is a useful case study in the persistence of initial design decisions, the displacement of prior uses by subsequent ones, and the difficulty of revising an inherited arrangement once the interests that benefit from it have organized themselves around its continuation. The publication applies this sensibility to questions of broader scope.