Essays Without the Noise
These essays are written with one goal in mind: more signal, less noise. Here you will find historical perspective, medical and policy analysis, and measured commentary on the presidency, healthcare, medicine, and public life—written to illuminate rather than inflame.
Addendum: What Headlines Signal—And What Headlines Obscure
A headline is not the whole story, but it is often the first clue as to whether a piece is trying to inform, provoke, or recruit. This brief addendum offers a practical way to sort titles by likely signal versus noise before you ever click.
Extracting Truth in a Noisy Media Environment
The biggest obstacle to understanding the news is not simply bias. It is noise: the accumulation of commentary, selective emphasis, repetition, and performance that obscures reality. In a noisy media environment, readers need a method for recovering the shared factual core beneath competing narratives.