Cycles of Change

The historian of 2226 opens archives from two centuries prior and finds a curious phenomenon. The people of 2025-26 believed their moment was unprecedented. They described their conflicts as uniquely intense, their divisions as historically deep, their technological disruptions as fundamentally [...]

The architects of the American constitutional system expressed recurring concerns about the concentration of power in financial and governmental institutions. These concerns emerged from direct observation of how centralized authority functioned in European monarchies and colonial administration. [...]