The Last Gasp
It looks ascendant.Strongmen are flexing in Moscow, Beijing, Ankara, Budapest. Democracies feel shaky under the weight of disinformation, polarization, and nostalgia for “simpler times” that never really existed.On the surface,…
Category: Politics
Corruption as Governmental Infrastructure
This is next-level corruption. Howard Lutnick, the current Commerce Secretary, is championing tariffs as a cornerstone of U.S. trade policy. Meanwhile, his sons at Cantor Fitzgerald are building a financial…
Balancing Ethics, Humanity, and Responsibility
Every so often, leadership escapes the comfortable orbit of planning roadmaps and OKRs and enters a realm that feels almost ancient—where decisions aren’t just about performance, but about principle. I’m…
Age-Gating the Internet Is a Blunt Instrument. Kids Deserve Better Tools.
There’s a growing, bipartisan fantasy that if we force the internet to check everyone’s ID at the door, kids will be safe and society will be tidy again. It’s comforting…
Epstein’s Shadow over Trump
Why We Can’t Let This Slip Two news cycles ago, Donald Trump admitted—out loud—that his golf course was a grooming site for Jeffrey Epstein. That alone should’ve stopped the presses.…