“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…
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…
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”…
When the Revolutionary Becomes the Empire “It is in the nature of political bodies always to see the evil in the opposite group.”—Carl Jung The conflict between the United States and Iran is usually framed in terms of nuclear programs, sanctions, and regional power. That’s the visible layer. Beneath it…
How counterfeit empathy became social control “The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.” — Albert Einstein Wokeism looks like empathy. But it’s missing the one thing that makes…
Gold, yuan, and the end of dollar rule “He who owns the gold makes the rules.” — Anonymous A reader on Sunday’s post mentioned The Wizard of Oz. That single word—Oz—sent me back to an essay I wrote over two years ago called The Land of Ounces. I went back…
A Three-Part Mini-Series — Part Two “Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens.” — Genesis 11:4 Every tower begins with a promise. People surrender tangible wealth—time, money, labor, health—in exchange for the promise of something greater. This essay traces one of…
From 2018 to the present “The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.” — Winston Churchill Sometimes it pays to go back and read things I’ve written before. It sheds new light. In my post Things Are Not as They Appear, I traced the long…
A Three-Part Mini-Series — Part One “They know us better than we know ourselves. That should frighten you.” — Shoshana Zuboff, Author of The Age of Surveillance Capitalism Doesn’t it give you the creeps—that you’re being studied by the minute? Right now, somewhere yonder, a server is coalescing around your identity—your name,…
“The woman whom thou gavest to be with me—she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate.” — Genesis 3:12 The First Audit Listen to the first words spoken by a newly self-aware humanity. They are not filled with curiosity, wonder, or love. They are an audit. An accounting….
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