Ben Franklin and the Fragile Agreement

Experimenting with Consent of the Governed.

Hamilton, Burr, and the Cost of Misunderstanding

The truth about Duels

The Short Cuts We Trust Too Much

Common Sense too often Isn't 

The Social Contract 

Compromise is a Structural Bargain 

Enter the Museum

A growing archive of ideas, essays, future exhibits

and a few other bits of observation and nonsense.

Galloping Gertie and the Canoe

What we don't know

Davy Crockett, the Widow, and Compassion

Other Peoples Money.

Compromise, Misunderstood

Compromise is a Structural Bargain 

No Blood, No Foul

Sometimes you finish the play—

and discover everyone else already stopped

playing.

The Gift Shop

Tools, workbooks, and frameworks