Human beings are complicated creatures. Our stories are rarely neat. So how should I summarize mine? I’m a novelist, essayist, Army veteran, former defense contractor, and Texan. I’ve traveled all over the world: Asia, Africa, Europe, South America, the Caribbean, and the Middle East, mostly in a professional capacity taking part in security, intelligence, and extraction missions.

Ethnically Jewish but raised evangelical, in my twenties I became an atheist and was an active writer among the “anti-woke left” between 2014-2019. Yet after the 2020 pandemic, living in Israel until 2021, taking psychedelics in 2022, and reading a lot of classical Western literature in 2023, I underwent a radical worldview shift in my thirties that resulted in a recovery of my belief in G-d, conversion to Judaism, a deepening devotion to Zionism, and embrace of a “countercultural cultural conservatism” that fuses economic populism with traditional social values.

You can still find essays from my previous life under Young Heathen. But I do hope you’ll find my recent work on Cowboy Mystic to be more engaging, enraging, and enchanting. Driven by the Renaissance proverb that “A well-rounded man must be an artist, a warrior, and a philosopher”, I’ve been grabbing life by the horns for 34 years and hope to wrestle it 66 more.