What kind of person can remain free when the crowd is everywhere?

Friends—after two years of work, I’m done.

My next book, The One and the Ninety-Nine, is about a modern problem most of us can feel but struggle to name: how to become a solid self—free, grounded, and capable of love—without losing the bonds that make life worth living, without having to flee the world or opt out of every invitation.

We want differentiation and communion at the same time. But we’re living in an age of social contagion, where identity gets negotiated in public and in real time, shaped by technology and rival ideologies that reward performance over interiority.

The The One and the Ninety-Nine diagnoses what’s happening at the societal level, but it’s also practical: it offers a way out of the most common mimetic traps in our daily lives—starting immediately.

In 1951, three books were published that tried to understand the mass movements and spiritual pressures of the 20th century: Eric Hoffer’s The True Believer, Ernst Jünger’s The Forest Passage, and Hannah Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism. Seventy-five years later, the pressures are different—but the question is strikingly similar: What kind of person can remain fully human and alive in a depersonalizing world?

The The One and the Ninety-Nine weaves classical philosophy and memoir, current events and history, and spiritual wisdom brought to bear on our most serious modern dilemmas. It engages the concrete problems of our time, from the acedia that social media provokes to the massive cost that losing our most important rites of passage has inflicted on our youth, and on all of us.

The book is officially up for pre-order at Barnes & Noble, and it’s currently 25% off for the next few days (use the code ‘PREORDER25’ in the image below). If B&N is your retailer of choice, this is the moment to lock it in. It publishes June 16, 2026. Link: t.co/xHa1Ry5UdR

Thank you for your support—I can’t wait to share it with you!