David E. Martin

What Has My Attention.

On My Mind

These are the ideas occupying me right now — picked from the thousands of essays, papers, books, and appearances that make up a lifetime of asking questions. Some are pieces I find myself returning to time and again, some just feel right for right now, and others are what I'm still working through. The list will change as I do. Enjoy.

June 2, 2026 · Inverted Alchemy

Accountability for Men — Me First

Eleven months into a book on what fuels the conflict between men and women — and a question that arrived unbidden: why didn’t you do it in partnership with me?

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April 10, 2026 · Inverted Alchemy

The Sky That Is No Longer There

The sky was not looked at; it was inhabited — a record left in stone, copper, calendar, and governance. We are still inside that record.

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April 30, 2026 · Naked in the Garden

The Irrelevance That Never Was

Ten months of examining a question so entangled it was imperceptible — the Y-fracture: coherence that was never absent, only unresolvable to the field around it.

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March 2026 · Essay

A Letter from the Journey

Not a paper — a letter from inside the journey: the single object that kept appearing across four decades and five domains, and what it took to finally see it.

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The Wobble

One precise nudge that reorganizes an entire system.

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