Speaking
Five talks. One argument. Each maps to a book; every audience gets the register it came for.
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Victory, Not Management
Why the West’s conflicts don’t end — and what deciding to win actually requires. The argument of The Carthage Doctrine, delivered by someone who has operated.
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Repaying Lafayette: 250 Years of Americans Fighting for Other People’s Freedom
Booking now for 250th-anniversary programming.
From the marquis who bought his own ship to the Americans in the Donbas — the parallel foreign policy of conscience, told for the nation’s 250th birthday.
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The Underground That Armed Israel
The Sonneborn Institute, Service Airways, and the ordinary Americans who smuggled a state into existence in 1948 — and stood trial for it.
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Alone in the Ranks: The Lone Soldier’s Honest Ledger
Two funerals — one empty, one thirty thousand strong — and the history of the volunteers Israel calls lone soldiers, honored honestly, both columns visible.
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Writing the Thirty-Nine-Day War
How a practitioner turns the world he knows into fiction — the craft, the composites, and the question at the heart of The Closing Window. Story first.
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Use the contact form with your date, audience, and format (in-person or virtual). Book clubs reading The Closing Window can request a free 15-minute virtual visit.