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FROM CONFUSION TO CLARITY By Clayton S. Wood June 18, 2026 As what we assume are accurate summaries of the MOU began to emerge, a brilliant friend told me he was looking forward to reading my view. I said, “If Iran is a very good boy, it gets a pony. I do not believe the IRGC knows how to be a very good boy for long, and everyone reading the MOU is furious about the idea that it might get the pony anyway.” I want to unpack what I mean by that. Many voices I respect are yellin

By Clayton S. Wood 6/15/26 A friend of mine, Michael Smith, is a gifted writer. He shared something on Facebook recently that set off this entire examination. He had spent a morning reading the Substack of a Howard University journalism professor named Stacey Patton, who had written a piece in the wake of Karmelo Anthony's murder conviction, blaming the dead boy's father for his son's death. Austin Metcalf was seventeen years old when he was stabbed at a track meet in Frisco,