I’m excited to share that my new book has been published. You can find it here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1951312201 I’m also sharing the foreword below for anyone who would like to get a first look at the heart and purpose of the book: I was born in Antalya, Türkiye, and spent my childhood and early youth, until the ...
However closely human beings may resemble other living creatures in biological terms, there remains something in us that sets us apart in a profound and unmistakable way. We think. We imagine. We create. We observe nature, imitate it, reshape it, and then build a second world within the first. We do not merely live in...
The New Question at the Schoolhouse Door For most of modern schooling, a teacher could assign a task and assume that the task told a story about the student. A worksheet suggested whether the student had practiced. An essay suggested whether the student could read, reason, organize, and revise. A math solution suggest...
The Weight You Never Named There is a kind of tired that sleep does not fix. You can get eight hours, drink the water, walk around the block, answer the emails, fold the laundry, and still feel a heaviness sitting behind your ribs. You may not call it anxiety. You may not call it resentment. You may not call it anythi...
The scandal behind the scandal Most people think they know what corruption looks like. They picture a bag of cash, a hidden bank transfer, a minister caught on tape, a contractor handing over an envelope in a parking lot. Those images are vivid, easy to recognize, and politically useful. They are also incomplete. By t...
The Night the Story Changed Phoenix was supposed to give women’s college basketball a champion. It ended up giving the sports business a headline that was bigger than any single trophy. UCLA, long a famous athletic brand but not yet an NCAA women’s basketball champion, delivered the kind of performance that instantly ...
Stand on the ragged heights above the water near the entrance to the Persian Gulf and the first impression is not grandeur in the alpine sense, nor softness, nor abundance. It is starkness. The mountains on the Iranian shore come down in folds of rust, violet, and dust-brown. The Musandam Peninsula on the Omani side r...