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August 14, 2026 Guest Commentaries

When Progress Becomes Anti-Progress

Modern institutions have embraced the belief that more data, more regulation, and more centralized coordination will always produce better outcomes, but that assumption is increasingly running into its own limits. As bureaucracies drown in information they cannot meaningfully interpret, the very mechanisms built to improve performance begin producing the opposite result, a phenomenon that undermines […]

July 27, 2026 Original Analysis

Tech and the Vote to Intent Ratio

The vote to intent ratio is the proportion of total intentional government action that is driven by any voter filling their proportionate share of total government action. If the government can be crassly compared to a corporation, each citizen within that government would be a shareholder with an equal share of equity in the state. […]

December 27, 2025 Original Analysis

All Government Action Requires Vision

Political science is a great misnomer that disguises the true nature of the art of ruling. It pretends that politics is an objective science that can be examined using the same boundaries of knowledge as the physical sciences. However, politics bears a great burden that will forever separate it from the natural sciences: it is […]