Human agency, due process, refusal, correction, recourse, privacy, opacity, and limits on institutional knowledge and judgment.
A scholarly essay on Daniel and Joseph as biblical figures of counsel near power: non-capture, institutional judgment, the ethics of administration, misrecognition, corrigibility, and the movement from recognition toward authorship.
A complete public web edition examining how serviceability becomes confused with goodness across work, friendship, speech, Sabbath, institutions, and public life.
An essay on self-authorization, hypervigilance, and the point at which further preparation can no longer produce the evidence required for action.
A chapter on psychological locality: how judgments acquire inferential jurisdiction, when local evidence earns the right to become a pattern, and why repeated recognition can become structurally misleading when apparently independent judgments share the same source.
A provisional psychological theory of how sophisticated cognition can regulate relational asymmetry by organizing unfinished experience before another mind receives it.
Fair process can improve how power is exercised without expanding what an institution is entitled to govern. This article develops a non-bootstrap principle separating adjudicative fairness from domain authority.
A political-theory account of reflexive capture: when formative relationships help concentrate the dependence through which their own power becomes harder to contest.
A theory of the anti-capture self: how self-reliance, indispensability, judgment, giving, and reversibility can converge around preserving self-jurisdiction—and what governed interdependence requires instead.
Optionality, Recoverability, and Decision Under Moving Constraints The world changes after you make the plan. Most itineraries are built as if the difficult part were deciding what to do before that happens. I arrived in Philadelphia after midnight with the following day already organized: the first useful transit after morning, Independence Hall, Congress Hall, food,…
Sonoluminescence is not a moral law. This essay develops boundary-condition ethics: institutions governing pressure must justify exposure, preserve dissent, protect recovery, and repair harm.
Generative AI has made cognitive output abundant. The scarce resource is governed administrative capacity: context, verification, coordination, authority, and follow-through. Through feminist and Black critical theory, this essay asks who performs that labor, who bears its burdens, and what FORTH would have to prove to deserve the category of critical technology.
A scholarly essay on patient-held medical records, artificial intelligence, bodily difference, clinical uncertainty, and the dignity that precedes cure.
Forms make institutional judgment possible. They become dangerous when a partial record acquires authority beyond the purpose, evidence, and review that justified its creation.
A person can be answerable without becoming fully available. An essay on institutional evidence, coercive exposure, directional transparency, contestability, and the right not to be finalized by a record.
Friendship knows a person without completing them. An essay on attention, dignity, grace, opacity, and the limits of every record that claims to define a human life.
A public essay from the research behind Made Voices. AI becomes morally consequential not only when it predicts or decides, but when it addresses us: remembering, advising, correcting, soliciting disclosure, and acting in the voice of institutions.
Somewhere, in a yard no longer ours, the ground kept what I put there or did not.
LITERARY ESSAY · REVISION 2026. Cultivation after damage: what remains possible when innocence is gone, usefulness is too poor a god, and sweetness arrives without absolution.
ESSAY · CURRENT VERSION. Institutions distribute support unevenly, force the disfavored to compensate in public, and then misread the visible cost of compensation as merit, seriousness, or fitness.
A research compendium on what averages erase, how outliers generate knowledge, and what institutions must build when the mean is no longer allowed to govern alone.
