Chris Abraham

Chris Abraham is a writer and SEO consultant who lives in South Arlington, Virginia. He is the host of this show, and he also writes Hill Mole, a serialized novel.

Every episode of The Chris Abraham Show is his. So is every article here that does not carry another author's byline.

Articles by Chris Abraham

Musk Didn't Invent It. That's the Point., November 4, 2026
Bell Labs gets credit for Telstar but SpaceX gets none for Starlink. Invention is an event. Innovation makes it ordinary.
Profit Is Not a Sin, November 4, 2026
Profit is a surplus. Profiteering is extraction by fraud, monopoly, or force. A government contract is a purchase, and the ledger shows who delivered.
The Glass Jaw of Democracy, November 4, 2026
Democracy does not have a glass jaw. Fragility rhetoric is herd management by the 20 percent, from Carter's lecture in 1979 to the deplorables of 2016.
The Short Leash, November 4, 2026
My father told me I could not do anything wrong without being caught. Emerson, Kundera, a Senate that never happened, and a life lived on the record.
Nathalia Filgueiras Stayed on the Radio, November 3, 2026
The 20-year-old co-pilot of the Learjet that fell over Palm Beach County stayed on the radio to the end. A eulogy for Nathalia Filgueiras, and for her captain.
My Whole Internet Life Costs Ten Dollars a Year, November 3, 2026
Every site I run, including this show's site, sits on GitHub Pages with a wholesale Cloudflare domain. Here is the whole build, step by step.
Probably Not Voting, November 3, 2026
Midterm Election Day in Arlington: a mail ballot that never followed me to the new apartment, a polling place five blocks away, and a friend's post about fear.
Half the Game, November 2, 2026
Christianity gets graded on behavior, but behavior is only the second commandment. The first half of the faith is worship—prayer, devotion, submission—and it happens where nobody can see it.
I Don't Hate Trump Enough, November 2, 2026
Fail the hatred test and the crowd files you as the enemy. On purity tests, armadillos in the middle of the road, thrown rocks, and ten years of refusing to capitulate.
The Loan Is Called, November 2, 2026
I voted for Trump three times on one written invoice: no foreign wars, no monsters abroad. He bombed Iran. Tomorrow I hope his party loses, and I will probably vote Democrat.
Security Theater: A Primer, November 1, 2026
Schneier coined the term in 2003. The scholarship since says the show rarely stops anything. A primer, a history, and the receipts.
The Sixteen Percent, October 30, 2026
If smart starts at one sigma, the cutoff is an IQ of 115 and 84 percent of humanity is not smart. Nobody wins an election, or an argument, with sixteen percent.
When the Antibiotics Stop Working, October 30, 2026
The kill-shot slurs were built to hammer tall poppies flat and make people come to heel. A century of overuse bred resistance. Now they earn a smirk.
A Straight Blow with a Crooked Stick, October 28, 2026
A conman in a tent can preach a crooked sermon and still deliver a straight conversion. The Holy Spirit is not bottlenecked by the vessel.
Ride Like a Varmint, October 28, 2026
In 1989 I delivered for Washington Express by bicycle and survived by expecting nothing from the road. The columns expect everything, and physics collects.
The Professional Coward, October 28, 2026
The day the sheriff hands you a carry permit, your job changes: you become a professional coward. Alex Pretti carried like a hero. Heroes get gunfights.
The Truck Stops Itself, or It Doesn't Stop, October 28, 2026
A buddy's Facebook memo on Alex Pretti, answered line by line: facts feed a legal test, paper vanishes in a melee, and trucks stop themselves or not at all.
The Window Moved. I Stayed Put., October 28, 2026
People call Bridget Phetasy radicalized. A lifelong Clinton Democrat answers: we stood where we were told to stand, and the Overton window left us.
Lawfare Forever, October 27, 2026
Bragg's 34 felonies, James on the loans, Fani in Atlanta: bolos at the bull's legs, and none held. Now Comey, USAID, and the reprisal. I have popcorn.
Here's Your Warning, October 26, 2026
Everybody should be platformed—but platforming is not quarantine. Fuentes radicalizes no one; he summons the already primed, and the charm is the weapon.
The Machine Thinks I'm a Mastermind, October 26, 2026
Google's AI wrote my portrait twice: mastermind of Collabor8, staff, server rooms. Around this fire, the legend gets told by the man it claims to describe.
The Trellis, Not the Vine, October 26, 2026
Around the fire: how I fired myself as the star of two websites, played character actor in Judy Malloy's play, and learned the conga-line strategy from my dad.
Things I Might Be Making Up, October 26, 2026
MDN or MDG? cabraham or abrahamc? Mainframe time I never bought. A campfire audit of my own thirty-year-old recall: seams showing, and nothing thrown away.
Why Matt Shade Is Not a Douchebag, October 26, 2026
Ex-pro, celebrity, charm, the Porsche: Matt Shade has every ingredient of the TV douchebag and isn't one. He's a Mensch hero—and the Big Stud is no match.
Matt Shade Is a Christ Figure, October 25, 2026
Nobody has written The Gospel According to Private Eyes, so I am: season 4's mess, Everett's bob, and Shade as the Christ figure of grace.
You Don't Have to Be Homeless in DC, October 25, 2026
Washington shelters 87 percent of its homeless, and the rest are declining a contract, not lacking one: on agency, curfews, steam grates, and pity.
Still Learning from Matt Shade, October 24, 2026
A follow-up to my essay on pride and going back: twenty-nine episodes into Private Eyes, the lessons turn to partnership, perception, and coming back.
The Day I Blew Up Reddit on Someone Else's Loss, October 14, 2026
A brand-new RAV4 lost all four wheels in my building's lot. My photo drew 400,000 views on Reddit, and every one of them came from a stranger's bad morning.
Nine Years of r/slowjogging, and Then Korea Showed Up, October 14, 2026
I started r/slowjogging in December 2017 and kept it going through the years nobody came. Then Korea fell for slow jogging, and 9,400 people joined in a year.
What Private Eyes Is Teaching Me About Pride and Going Back, October 13, 2026
Private Eyes shows how people should treat each other. Watching it, I finally saw how I leave people forever, and how pride passes itself off as self respect.
I Haven't Loved a Loner Killer Like This Since Mack Bolan, October 13, 2026
Lee Child's Jack Reacher has me the way Don Pendleton's Mack Bolan did when I was a boy in Honolulu, and the two of them are the same kind of man.