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The Wedel Letter

Cover of Issue No. 3: How to Fix a Mower You Didn’t Break.

Issue No. 3 — July 16, 2026

How to Fix a Mower You Didn’t Break

I broke my grandmother’s mower. Then I broke her second one. Then, for good measure, I broke her van.

Cover of Issue No. 2: Why I Read Dragons.

Issue No. 2 — July 2, 2026

Why I Read Dragons.

A defense of “unserious” fiction — what grimdark fantasy teaches about moral complexity that no ethics seminar ever managed.

Cover of Issue No. 1: Where’s the Passion?

Issue No. 1 — June 18, 2026

Where’s the Passion?

We standardized the goals, then stopped enforcing them. Scores have fallen ever since.

About this letter

The Wedel Letter is an essay, published on the first and third Thursday of each month, about whatever currently has my full attention. One issue might take on the Fed; the next, a book worth arguing about, the inside of the legal profession, the strange ways property changes hands, or whatever I have been researching at two in the morning.

There is no beat here. The views are mine alone — not those of any employer or client — and nothing here is legal advice or creates an attorney-client relationship.