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April 2023
Reflections on Phil Klay's Redeployment
John Koenig made up a list of words to describe emotions that we all have but have no language to describe. It’s called The Dictionary of Obscure…
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Failure and a Bit of Free Self Help
Lessons from a near past flame out...
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Sean Patrick Hughes
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Author Phil Klay and I Talk a Bit About Writing
Live Event, May 2nd
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Sean Patrick Hughes
March 2023
Separating Service and War
Two Thoughts Twenty Years Later
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Sean Patrick Hughes
Birthday Advice
A few lessons from 46 trips around the sun...
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Sean Patrick Hughes
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February 2023
The New Business of Baseball
How the San Diego Padres are upending a class system decades in the making.
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Sean Patrick Hughes
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The Crisis of Friendship
Modern friendship is different than it once was. How should we think about the role close ties play for a world with less suffering?
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Sean Patrick Hughes
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January 2023
Hard Questions About the Future
Seeking the next Equilibrium
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Sean Patrick Hughes
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December 2022
The Intractable Problem of Mental Health and Military Service
It's not what you think.
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Sean Patrick Hughes
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Why Americans Don't Watch Soccer
It's a little bit us...
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Sean Patrick Hughes
On Leadership
This week I was looking through the old binder of service documents that I have that I imagine most people who served also keep. I know there’s some…
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Sean Patrick Hughes
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