Cycles of Change

When a government decides it knows better than the market how to run the economy, it begins deciding who gets what, who works where, how much bread costs, and how much land a family may keep. This often begins with the stated intention of ending poverty and inequality forever. For most of the [...]

The situation you are observing is the inevitable result of a globalized economy that was never built for resilience, but for maximum extraction and efficiency by elites who have no long-term stake in the survival of your nation. When you build a house of cards, you cannot be surprised when it [...]

During a final speech in 1961, President Dwight Eisenhower warned about the military-industrial complex. This term describes the alliance between weapon builders, the army, and politicians. By lobbying for federal budgets, firms shape policy. By fighting wars in Vietnam and Iraq, firms kept battles [...]

For those who did not experience adulthood before the digital revolution, "analog freedom" is hard to explain. It was not just the lack of smartphones. It was a different physics of social life. Before digital surveillance was everywhere, anonymity was the default. Privacy required no effort. It [...]