Harrison Kass

The fighter pilot was once America’s last great heroic archetype. But drones, AI, and network warfare are making the human pilot obsolete. @harrison_kass traces the rise, and slow death, of the fighter-pilot myth, from Top Gun to the drone age.

The fighter pilot has been America’s clearest heroic archetype for a century. He’s now becoming a strategic liability. New in @tabletmag: tabletmag.com/sections/news/…

Harrison Kass argues U.S. strikes on Iran risk repeating a familiar mistake: pursuing maximalist goals with limited means. Without verification or follow-through, “Epic Fury” could lock Washington into a cycle of recurring conflict. Read more. thecipherbrief.com/half-measures-…

Operation Epic Fury highlights a recurring problem: maximalist objectives pursued with constrained means—and limited visibility into outcomes. thecipherbrief.com/half-measures-…

New piece on Operation Epic Fury and what it may reveal about the future of U.S. air superiority. @thecipherbrief thecipherbrief.com/iran-exposed-a…

"Best practices" is cited as expertise. But the term often functions as a way to signal virtue, defer responsibility, and quietly shut down debate. New article here: cracksinpomo.substack.com/p/the-orwellia…

Middlebrow movies weren’t just two-hour escape pods, they functioned as a civic glue, a source of shared language, cross-generational references, and indeed, contemporary American myth, writes @harrison_kass. quillette.com/2026/02/19/the…

Why don't movies last anymore? New piece in @Quillette on Hollywood's decline, shifting incentives, and the disappearance of the middlebrow. quillette.com/2026/02/19/the…

U.S. defense priorities reward visible combat power—often at the expense of quieter missions that actually enforce sovereignty. New piece for @TheCipherBrief on the Coast Guard and homeland defense. thecipherbrief.com/the-coast-guar…

New in @thehill: The Marine Corps just turned 250. But as defense spending approaches $1T, sentimentality isn’t a justification for redundancy. If three branches already perform the Corps’ missions, what are we preserving, capability or mythology? thehill.com/opinion/nation…

Portland didn’t “accidentally” end up with a socialist city council. It was engineered — built by nonprofits, unions, and insiders who mapped the districts, ran the candidates, and staffed the commissions. Harrison Kass @harrison_kass — former City Hall policy advisor to @reneforportland , candidate for council, and someone we supported — lays out exactly how the machine took over. city-journal.org/article/portla…

Portland has become a case study in ideological capture. In City Journal, I explain how the far-left reshaped the city’s political structure—and why national media keep misreading what’s actually happening here. @CityJournal city-journal.org/article/portla…

"When fitness is assigned political value, the left skews toward unfitness, the right toward fitness." ✍️ Harrison Kass trib.al/4TGE5Th

Wrote a piece for The Spectator on why fitness should be seen as a universal good—not a political issue. thespectator.com/topic/why-the-…

@a_centrism Only a hardened, joyless cynic could rate hair metal so poorly.

The speech prepped for Nixon to give if Apollo 11 failed.

Oregon Law alum Harrison Kass JD’20 writes about his experience as an attorney joining pro hockey titled “The Story of A 34-Year-Old Rookie.” Kass was an attorney and now is a pro hockey player for the Hat Tricks. Read his article here: fal.cn/3lPCC

"I’d harbored professional ambitions my entire life. As a child, as a teenager, as an adult. My intention persisted decade after decade, unyielding." @harrison_kass shares the story about how he came to be a 34-year-old rookie in the lowest tier of professional hockey. ⬇️

Hockey has always called to @harrison_kass, and getting to play the game he loves is worth being a 34-year-old rookie in the lowest tier of professional hockey. READ: fansided.com/2022/01/25/pro…