We Have Reached c²
How the Law of Reversal Is Remaking the Middle East (Note: You can now listen to me read this essay. Let me know if you’d like me to continue this feature for future posts.) “The Middle East is no more. Welcome to West Asia.” —Mohammed Soliman The post-Cold War regional…
The Statecraft That Saves Us
Subversive Wisdom for an Age of Collapse “The great bulk of political history has been written from the standpoint of the state…The infrapolitics of the weak are the invisible, everyday forms of resistance.” —James C. Scott The past week’s headlines have been impossible to ignore. The narrative driving the global…
Where Is Mother?
Resolving the All-Male Trinity “One becomes two, two becomes three, and out of the third comes the one as the fourth.” — Maria Prophetissa I grew up praying to the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Three persons, one God. All male. I didn’t question it as a teen. But somewhere…
This Hidden Law Explains Everything—Even Why Jesus Comes Back
“The way up and the way down are one and the same.” — Heraclitus Most religions acknowledge humanity’s shortcomings and expect something in the future: a reset, a restoration, a judge, a new age, or an event or place that makes this life worthwhile. But only one central figure in…
Does Media Inform or Control?
The Rise of “Professor Jiang” and the Art of Attentional Capture “Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.” — Jim Morrison, The Doors (1969) We want to believe media simply informs. It doesn’t. Government and media share a special relationship and the same goal: steering – guiding behavior, shaping choices,…
The Quiet Machine: The Psychology Behind the Dollar System
“The difficulty lies not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones.” — John Maynard Keynes If you have a 401(k), buy gas, or wonder why your grocery and utility bills keep rising, look no further than the invisible machine running our global economy. For most of the…
The Preemptive Crisis
How an artificial oil shortage could be hiding the end of cheap energy “We are not going back to 2025. We are not going back to oil being $70 a barrel.” — Art Berman, The Great Simplification (May 2026) Two weeks ago, in Why People Are Going Crazy, I argued…
55% and Rising
The passive tipping point that could break both stocks and housing “The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the fantasist pretends the sea isn’t there; the realist adjusts the sails.” —Adapted from William Arthur Ward What happens when markets stop asking, “Is this a good…
Why People Are Going Crazy
Functional Insanity and the Brain’s Fatal Loop “Individual insanity is rare, but mass madness is the historical norm.” — Nietzsche Watch the news. Scroll your feed for thirty seconds. Listen to how people talk to each other. Open Substack and you’ll notice the same pattern everywhere: ordinary people are being…
The Nations that See God
Untold History of the U.S.–Israel Relationship “We are the nation of the chosen people. And we must always remember that we are the ones who have been chosen to lead the world.” — Norman Podhoretz, a neoconservative thinker, 1980 The United States and Israel call their alliance a “special relationship”…