1694: The Year the World Changed
How Financial Extraction Was Invented—and Why We Mistook It for Reality “If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until…
The Pattern of the Family—Recovering the Wisdom We Exiled
The Rise of Sophia | Part 2 “The Lord brought me forth at the beginning of His way, before His works of old. From eternity I was established, from the beginning, from the earliest times of the earth.” — Proverbs 8:22-23 I remember wholeness before I knew it had a…
The Subsidiary Superpower—How Britain Lost Its Crown to America
“Permit me to issue and control the money of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws.” — attributed to Mayer Amschel Rothschild There is a narrative circulating today—let us call it the Promethean narrative—that offers a seductive explanation for global chaos. It tells its followers that the…
The Call to Wisdom—and Why We Chose Knowledge Instead
The Rise of Sophia | Part 1 “Does not wisdom call out?” — Proverbs 8:1 Before the first star burned, before the first human drew breath, before history began, Wisdom was there. She was beside the Creator as mountains rose, seas found their shores, and life unfolded from possibility into…
The Intellectual Architecture of Trumpism
How the Left and Right Are Trapped in the Same Mental Loop “The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either—but right through every human heart.” — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago American politics has become bipolar. Both poles organize themselves…
My Writing Process
On Being Audited by Machines (and the Humans Who Think Like Them) “The machine is not to be feared. The machine is to be used. What is to be feared is the human being who uses the machine like a machine.” — Wendell Berry I spend my days buried in…
Gold and the Quiet Takeover
How the State Is Buying the Economy and Reshaping the Global Monetary System “Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.”— John Adams A few weeks ago, I woke with thoughts about Trump that I…
The Permanent Bailout
How the Fed Bails Out the World With Your Savings “How did you go bankrupt? Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.” — Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises The Man Who Downgraded America In August 2011, Deven Sharma did something unprecedented. As president of Standard & Poor’s—one of the three major…
Financialization: The Parasite and the Host
Wars. Waste. Wall Street. Welfare. “The economy doesn’t work for you — it works to extract from you.” —Michael Hudson Financialization is a word you have probably heard in economic news, but its true meaning is rarely explained. The popular media treats it as the natural growth of finance in…
Welcome to West Asia
How the Law of Reversal Is Remaking the Middle East “The Middle East is no more. Welcome to West Asia.” —Mohammed Soliman The post-Cold War regional order has entered a period of systemic collapse. That’s the verdict from Mohammed Soliman, a senior fellow at the Middle East Institute and one…