The Hunt for Tom Clancy

Explaining how the world we live in came to be through the work of a dead novelist who was also an Honorary Yeoman Warder at the Tower of London.

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by The Hunt for Tom Clancy

May 26 2026 · Edited May 26, 2026
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God Forgives, Brothers Don't

A Guest Dispatch from Jasper Craven

by The Hunt for Tom Clancy

May 17 2026 · Edited May 17, 2026
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Starlight Scope Myopia

Close Reading Yusef Komunyakaa's Poem Through a Military Lens

by The Hunt for Tom Clancy

May 9 2026 · Edited May 9, 2026
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Shelley's Heart

Percy Bysshe Shelley, Hermeticism and the Secret Societies

by The Hunt for Tom Clancy

May 4 2026 · Edited May 4, 2026
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Poetry of the Graveyard

A Sojourn Among the Dead and their Markers

by The Hunt for Tom Clancy

May 3 2026 · Edited May 3, 2026
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Espionage and Literature

A Braided History

by The Hunt for Tom Clancy

April 14 2026 · Edited Apr 14, 2026
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Melania

Seeing is Believing

by The Hunt for Tom Clancy

April 14 2026 · Edited Apr 14, 2026
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Variations on Repair

A Papermaking Art Project

by The Hunt for Tom Clancy

April 7 2026 · Edited Apr 7, 2026
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Apocalypse Now

A Handy, Topical Reading Guide in the End Times

by The Hunt for Tom Clancy

April 3 2026 · Edited Apr 3, 2026
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From Mississippi Boy to Virginia Gentleman

The Education of Frank Wisner

by The Hunt for Tom Clancy

March 25 2026 · Edited Mar 25, 2026
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The Man From Mississippi Who Made This World

Frank Wisner and the invention of modern American Culture

by The Hunt for Tom Clancy

March 13 2026 · Edited Mar 13, 2026
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we've been at war my whole life

and nothing's gotten better because of it

by The Hunt for Tom Clancy

September 26 2025 · Edited Feb 5, 2026
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In Memoriam: Doug Laux

Remembering the Eclipse, The Clown Motel and the Back Gate of Area 51

by The Hunt for Tom Clancy

October 4 2025 · Edited Feb 5, 2026
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The Spy who Came Back to the Coldwater

A Funeral For Doug Laux

by The Hunt for Tom Clancy

October 26 2025 · Edited Feb 5, 2026
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The New Western Frontier

An Appearance on the Fourth Reich Archeology Podcast

by The Hunt for Tom Clancy

November 16 2025 · Edited Feb 5, 2026
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The Poetics of Jeffrey Epstein

The Dark Side of Poetry in America

by The Hunt for Tom Clancy

November 19 2025 · Edited Feb 5, 2026
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Oklahoma Where the Good Wheat Grows

A Profile of Dixon Palmer, a Kiowa Farmer in Oklahoma

by The Hunt for Tom Clancy

December 4 2025 · Edited Feb 5, 2026
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The Greenbrier Bunker

Project X: A Luxury Hotel Converted so Congress Could Ride out the Apocalypse in Style

by The Hunt for Tom Clancy

December 16 2025 · Edited Feb 5, 2026
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"That’s what I’m always saying to that Rosicrucian there"

James Joyce, William Butler Yeats, Irish Mysticism and the Brotherhood of the Rosy Cross

by The Hunt for Tom Clancy

December 20 2025 · Edited Feb 5, 2026
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A Short Course in the Secret War

James McCargar, Television, The Pond and the Office of Policy Coordination

by The Hunt for Tom Clancy

December 24 2025 · Edited Feb 5, 2026
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The Long Politics of Rudyard Kipling's "Kim"

The book that spies read to their children