Writing

Essays & Papers

Long-form work on power, order, political theory, and the political economy of emerging technology.

01
Methodology
Proximity, Method, and the Marginalization of Black Women in Political Thought

This essay argues that what separates stronger from weaker accounts in Black political thought is not proximity to experience, but whether gender is treated as structurally constitutive of the analysis—comparing Cooper, Wells, and Du Bois.

MethodologyBlack FeminismCanon
7 MIN
02
Political Islam
God, State, and Citizen: Individual Religiosity and Political Action in Post-Musharraf Pakistan

Using World Values Survey data across three waves, this paper examines whether individual religiosity became a stronger predictor of political participation in Pakistan after the fall of Musharraf's secular military regime.

Political IslamPakistanQuantitative
11 MIN
03
Political Theory
The Racial House and Its Exits: Baldwin, Ellison, and Morrison on a World Beyond Race

A comparison of how Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, and Toni Morrison each envision a world free of racial hierarchy — and why Morrison's vision is the most plausible.

Political TheoryAfrican American Thought
8 MIN
04
Culture
Art and Dissent: How Art Reflects American Politics and Decisions

An exploration of how art has historically reflected dissent, challenged injustice, and exposed the impacts of American political decisions.

CultureUS Politics
14 MIN
05
Geopolitics
Failure of the Liberal World Order

This essay explores the internal contradictions, geopolitical limitations, and multipolar pressures that challenge the foundations of the liberal international order.

GeopoliticsIR TheoryOrder
17 MIN