Tommy MarangesThe Pardoner’s DilemmaWhy Michael Flynn should probably flip sooner than later.4 min read·Aug 31, 2017----
Tommy MarangesKids These Days And The Collapse of Democracy Into Tyranny(NB: Cards Against Humanity asked me to write the intro to the edition of Plato’s Republic published as part of their Trump Bug-out Bag…4 min read·Nov 8, 2016--2--2
Tommy MarangesJohn Wick and the Greek Moral TraditionI’ve recently fallen in love with Movies with Mikey, because I always learn something about how narrative and film technique interact when…7 min read·Nov 6, 2016----
Tommy MarangesThe One Time I was wrong while designing Secret HitlerThe choice to separate Role and Party cards is the one we hear about most often, but I think it’s also the most interesting choice we made.11 min read·Apr 4, 2016--9--9
Tommy MarangesGame Balance in Secret HitlerSecret Hitler is a hidden-identity game I helped create, and you can get it right now on Kickstarter. For the last week, to give people a…7 min read·Dec 17, 2015--6--6
Tommy MarangesDesigning the policy deck in Secret HitlerLast essay I talked a bit about why I think the policy deck is a good contribution to the Social Deduction genre: it introduced a new…8 min read·Dec 3, 2015--5--5
Tommy MarangesHidden Information in Secret Hitler(This is essay is part one in a series. You can read part two here.)7 min read·Dec 1, 2015--7--7