Strategic analysis of international power structures, great power competition and the transformation of the contemporary world order.
An essay on how regulatory capture, legal privileges and state expansion replace competition with an economy of favors.
The Corporate Aristocracy Born from the Planning State Read Post »
Leo XIV’s first encyclical on artificial intelligence warns about opaque digital power, technological concentration and the need to disarm the logic of domination over human life.
AI Before the Human Person Read Post »
Beyond dogma and modern rejection, biblical stories may reveal enduring patterns about knowledge, power, guilt, decay and human nature.
Reading the Bible Without Faith Read Post »
A harsh reflection on poverty, clientelism and the way immediate survival weakens republican judgment.
Why Hunger Makes Corruption Tolerable Read Post »
Free markets did not promise perfect equality, but they produced the greatest retreat of extreme poverty in human history.
Capitalism Always Wins Read Post »
Structural excessLoss of limitsCertainty and error
Hybris: When Systems Stop Recognizing Their Limits Read Post »
Between immediate risks and existential threats, artificial intelligence forces us to ask who controls technology and for what purpose.
AI Is Not a Genie: It Is a Test of Power Read Post »
An allegory about punishment, habit and how systems of domination make the dominated defend their own chains.
When the Cage Learns to Obey Read Post »
From Mary Shelley to artificial intelligence, a warning about technical ambition when it becomes detached from moral responsibility.
Frankenstein, AI and the Duty to Answer for What We Create Read Post »
An institutional analysis of how 21st-century socialism erodes checks and balances, destroys incentives and replaces promised equality with new extractive elites.
When Socialism Turns Institutions Into Spoils Read Post »
