Marcus C.

Politics, geopolitics, history and stuff. I came up through a state university system, picking up a BA in political science and later a master’s in public administration, formalizing what was already a long standing fascination with how societies organize themselves, evolve, and occasionally unravel. My interests tend to orbit social systems, institutional behavior, military history, and the slow churn of history that shapes (and reshapes) them over time.

I’ve worked in local government for over a decade, which is to say I’ve developed a professional familiarity with bureaucracy in both its functional and ornamental forms, the parts that keep things moving, and the parts that exist mostly to remind you they can. Somewhere in that space between policy and practice, you learn how systems actually behave, not just how they’re supposed to.

I probably smoke too much and write too little, though I maintain a persistent belief that both tendencies provide, at minimum, time for languid self-reflection. The Union forever, down with the traitors, up with the stars.