Research Essays

Beyond the War: Iran, Hormuz, and the Restructuring of the Global Energy Order

An examination of how the Iran war and disruption of the Strait of Hormuz may reshape global energy trade, security, investment, and electrification.

Climate Change: The Science Behind the Narrative

Examines how strong scientific findings can lose context when uncertainty, regional differences, and conditional projections are compressed into political narratives.

COVID-19 and the Cost of False Certainty

An examination of how public-health communication blurred evidence, uncertainty, risk, and policy during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Diversity Without Individuality

A Critique of the DEI Ideology

A framework intended to recognize difference can become internally contradictory when demographic categories begin to substitute for individuality.

Fascism and the Subjugation of the Individual

An examination of fascism as an anti-liberal political morality that subordinates individual rights, pluralism, and independent judgment to a unified collective.

Illegal Immigration: The Hidden Costs of an Economic System

An examination of the vulnerable labor, dangerous migration routes, criminal markets, and losses to sending countries hidden within the illegal-immigration economy.

Russiagate Primary Source Review

A review of declassified and official records concerning the Clinton Plan intelligence, the Steele dossier, the Carter Page FISA applications, and the 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment.