How the press is made, and kept

Set in

Sovereign Affairs is set in Fraunces (display), Newsreader (text), and IBM Plex Mono (labels), self-hosted by the press — no third-party font servers, no tracking. The essential lines are rubricated, after the old practice: the words that matter, in red. The press is printed by the author.

Standards

The catalogue is numbered as written and never unpublished; a paper’s number is its place in the lifetime sequence. Corrections are made in the open rather than silently. The opinions are the author’s own, and nothing here is financial, legal, or investment advice.

Attribution

Quote freely, with attribution. Cite papers as “No. N — Title (Sovereign Affairs)” with the paper’s URL. Select any passage on a paper to press it into a shareable card.

Privacy & your attention

No advertising, no third-party tracking, no engagement machinery. If you subscribe to the letter, your address is used to send the letter and nothing else — it is held by the press’s email service (Kit) and you can leave in one click, from any letter. The reading ledger that marks which papers you have read lives in your own browser, on your device alone; the press never sees it.

On the use of AI

The essays are written and judged by the author. Where software — including AI tools — assists with research, drafting, or production, it serves the author’s hand, not the other way round. Any feature that answers in the press’s voice will be clearly labelled as such.

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