Zamyatin's We — the ur-text that preceded 1984 and Brave New World — read as a mathematical argument for why collective happiness cannot be solved like an equation.

Game theory applied to third-party voting: why winner-takes-all systems punish independent votes, and what Nash equilibrium says about whether voting for RFK is ever strategically rational.

On the generational arithmetic of class mobility: from a father who studied war and sailing to children who might study art, and the hidden scorecard of modern class signaling.

Notes on Westad's Cold War history, which reframes the conflict as a global struggle fought mainly in the Third World — and what this lens reveals about American and Soviet interventionism.