The Dispatch

Opinion: Alex Pretti didn’t have to die

January 26, 2026 Marcus Peter 191

By now, the death of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis has been converted into a digital spectacle, parsed, dissected, meme-ified, and moralized across social media platforms. One side is casting Pretti as a canonized martyr against […]

Analysis

Iran, the Quran, and the West

January 17, 2026 Marcus Peter 60

What is unfolding in Iran today is faithful to the Quran. The present regime represents the mature expression of political Islam as articulated through Quranic command, prophetic precedent, and juridical enforcement. The Iranian theocracy emerged […]

Analysis

Scrolling ourselves to death

December 2, 2025 Marcus Peter 16

The recent revelation that Meta employees privately compared themselves to drug pushers while the company suppressed evidence of severe mental health harms to children arrives with the subtlety of a fire alarm in a library. […]

Essay

The debt we owe to the Mayflower pilgrims

November 26, 2025 Marcus Peter 8

When the Mayflower anchored off Cape Cod in November 1620, its passengers had already accomplished something remarkable. They had survived a perilous Atlantic crossing on a leaky vessel in freezing winds. Yet before they even […]