How I Know What I Think I Know

Things I've Been Thinking About · Oct 11, 2026 · 3m

Before publishing more investigative history, I wanted to put my method on the record. This episode lays out the standard: where a worldview legitimately operates, where evidence takes over, and what separates the two.

Covered: the five levels of knowing, from documented fact to theological interpretation, and why collapsing them is where most political writing fails. Why institutions converge without coordinating — and why the absence of a memo doesn’t settle the question either. Why the most effective propaganda consists almost entirely of true statements. Why everyone inside a failing…