The Courtship Journal — essays on love, dating, and compatibility
Love Without Borders: Dating in a Global, Remote-First World
— Careers, friendships, and now relationships routinely span continents. Here's what changes - and what doesn't - when the person you're falling for is in a different time zone.
The Paradox of Choice: Why More Options Are Making Love Harder to Find
— Behavioral science has a name for what unlimited swiping does to decision-making - and it's not a dating problem, it's a human one.
How We Dated Before the Internet: A Short History of Finding Someone
— From village matchmakers to newspaper personal ads to video dating booths - a brief history of how people found partners before swiping existed.
Love in the 1950s: Courtship Before Algorithms
— No apps, no swipes - just chaperones, letters, and a courtship calendar everyone understood. What dating in the 1950s got right, and what it got badly wrong.
What Jane Austen Knew About Compatibility That Dating Apps Forgot
— Two centuries before algorithms promised to find your match, Austen's novels mapped out compatibility with more precision than most dating apps manage today.
Dating in 2026: What Actually Works When Everyone's on Six Apps
— Swiping fatigue is real and well-documented. Here's what the data and a growing counter-trend of intentional dating suggest actually leads to a relationship in 2026.