Year Zero, Operation: Mindcrime, and the Authoritarian Creep
I’ve been listening to a lot of music lately—not just my usual shuffle of favorites and forgotten deep cuts, but full albums. Start to finish. Stories set to sound. And…
Category: Politics
Government Is Not A Business
The primary goal of business is to maximize profit with minimal investment. Government, by contrast, exists to serve the public good: justice, safety, shared responsibility—not profit. That difference matters. A…
The Rise of the Surveillance State
How America’s Privacy is Just a Memory More than a decade ago, Edward Snowden exposed a vast, secret surveillance apparatus built by the U.S. government in partnership with private tech…
One Voice: Why I’m Writing About Leadership and Politics on the Same Blog
“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”— George Orwell In some circles, there’s a persistent bit of advice: “Keep your professional and political identities separate.”…
The Anatomy of Fascism in 2025
As someone who came of age respecting the slow, deliberate process of democratic governance—and who has watched with growing alarm the erosion of those norms—I’ve been reading Robert O. Paxton’s…