Stop Fighting Your Neighbor: The Mechanics of State Power and How to Opt Out

Stop Fighting Your Neighbor: The Mechanics of State Power and How to Opt Out

“The State is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.”—Frédéric Bastiat Bastiat’s insight grows more prophetic by the day. Watch what happens in any crisis. The reaction is predictable: people fracture into warring tribes, each certain it’s fighting for survival. Neighbors become informants, families split over ideology,…

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Locked Down. Rounded Up. Warehoused. The Rise of America’s Concentration Camps

Locked Down. Rounded Up. Warehoused. The Rise of America’s Concentration Camps

“No doubt concentration camps were a means, a menace used to keep order.”—Albert Speer, Nuremberg Trials In 2021, amid a global pandemic, warnings that the federal government might repurpose warehouses into detention facilities on American soil were dismissed as speculative, alarmist, even conspiratorial. Five years later, what was speculation is a blueprint for locking up…

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The 21-Mile Trigger: How a Narrow Strait Holds the Global Economy Hostage

The 21-Mile Trigger: How a Narrow Strait Holds the Global Economy Hostage

The illusion of a weightless, post-geographic world economy—and the chokepoint that exposes it The global economy sells itself as weightless, an elegant lattice of algorithms, financial derivatives, satellites, and cloud servers humming beyond the reach of geography. This story is comforting. It suggests resilience, redundancy, and control. But it is also a lie. Beneath the…

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