Essays
Evidence & Provenance
Source criticism, attribution, entity resolution, corrections, confidence, and the discipline of separating evidence from narrative convenience.
Provenance
“Rebel or Die”? Provenance before mythology
Evidence & provenanceResistance & dissent
What can actually be verified about Agnes Smedley, the slogan’s genealogy, and claims of Russian anti-war adoption.
Dissent & repression
No to war: what Russian anti-war resistance actually said
Resistance & dissentEvidence & provenance
Documented anti-war language, mobilization resistance, dissent signaling, women-led protest, and repression.
Epistemology
The Orange Revelation: a case study in pattern hunger
Evidence & provenanceDogma & ethics
Entity resolution, false friends, search artifacts, and why lexical similarity is not historical transmission.
Dogma
How to question dogma without replacing it
Dogma & ethicsEvidence & provenance
The skeptical project fails when “question everything” hardens into another identity-protective orthodoxy.
Explore by question
Follow a topic, not just a chronology.
The topic map groups essays by recurring questions and shows where evidence, ethics, power, institutions, and cognitive liberty overlap.