Nick Allison is a former Army infantryman, a college dropout, and a writer based in Austin, Texas. He spends too much time reading about history, democracy, and systems in collapse—and not enough time being optimistic about any of it. His interests include baseball, philosophy, and trying to make sense of the mess we call modern life. He’s not a journalist or a pundit—just a political independent, unaffiliated with any party, who still believes the Constitution is worth defending.