A Counterspell Story

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We arrive now at our final episode in our American Caesar series. We discuss here the specific mechanisms, ethical considerations, and tactical moves necessary in the Executive who might restore the republic. It’s not an easy thing to consider, but it’s high time that it must be.

This also likely marks the last public episode of this format - hence, the reversal of the prior decision to make this available only to paid subscribers. It is necessary for us to explore other formats going forward, as the cost of producing these videos has increased, and it has not been met with a commensurate increase in paid subscriptions. As we have operated for months at a loss we must now change. We are exploring the possibility of moving forward with a podcast-like format. However, though presently unknown, there is an expiration date on the Counterspell project unless a significant increase in support can be gained. We hope you might share us with friends towards this end.

Though we long hoped it would never come this time, it has, in fact, come. The reasonable and respectable avenues of normal polity have been cut-off from us. We face an illegitimate, revolutionary and detestable democracy where our constitutional republic belongs.

In our prior subscriber-only episodes we explored the history, precedents, and ethics of where we find ourselves. In the next episode, for subscribers only, we explore the gritty mechanisms from which this might still be accomplished without descending into chaos.

The task of reformation now falls to the only office in the land capable of carrying it forward: the President.

Counterspell is here.
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After three years of writing, the book launches Friday, May 1.

I was going to open this with something stirring. Something about the times we are living in, and the work the book is meant to do, and the kind of reader I had in mind through every page. I drafted that paragraph four times. It kept reading like a press release.

So instead, plainly:

Counterspell launches Friday, May 1, 2026. Ebook is available for pre-order on Amazon now (https://a.co/d/05DG1xql). Paperback and hardcover ship May 1. Below you'll find the introduction in audio (in my voice, recorded last week) and the first three lessons of the afterword in a produced PDF. If you read nothing else of the book, read those.

This post exists to give you four things — the audio excerpt, the PDF excerpt, the pre-order link, and a short personal note about what this book is for. In that order.

Listen — the introduction, in my voice

This is the full author's note that opens the book. About six and a half minutes. It is the shortest distance between a ...

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In what ideas and beliefs is the spirit of the Fourth of July, Independence Day, ordered liberty, and the rights of men rooted?

With due respect for those championing that root as "Scottish Common Sense Realism," or SCSR for short, as we consider many as friends, this SCRM most certainly was not the root of that good tree. Rather, SCSR was one of the first vines that arose to strangle the tree of liberty.

This can be proven in three distinct and damning ways. The first two of these proofs is rooted in the internal logic and consequences of ideas, and in the character of the "fathers" of SCSR. The "fathers" of SCSR were all, by confession, Presbyterian - more than mere Congregants, many were ordained ministers ("Shepherds" and "Elders" by Scriptural standards). As such they stood on the shoulders of giants of the faith, and of the Scottish Reformation, such as John Knox.

The first principle of the Reformation, generally, and Scottish Reformation, particularly, was Sola Scriptura: Scripture, alone, is ...