Tag: Politics

  • Independence, Imagination, and the Long Arc of Freedom: July 2026

    “Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.”  — C.S. Lewis (fellow Inkling and close friend of J.R.R. Tolkien) July arrives in full summer heat, and with it comes the deep American impulse to celebrate. But July has always been more than fireworks and barbecues;…

  • What the Democrats’ Own After-Action Report Actually Tells Us

    The 2024DNC autopsy shows they are lost and may not know what to do next. It emphasizes the need for a ten-year strategy to reconnect with working-class voters, while critiquing the party’s persistent failure to address structural issues and maintain voter trust. #2026Midterms #2024Election

  • The Public Trust Under Pressure: What Congress Is Doing to Our Public Lands, and Why Theodore Roosevelt Would Not Recognize It

    The 119th Congress is moving fast on public lands; and most Americans don’t know it’s happening. A breakdown of the key bills, the CRA resolutions, and why Theodore Roosevelt’s conservation legacy is more at risk than at any point in the last hundred years.

  • The Long Ledger: Part 4

    The Incubator Terror, China, and the Fracturing Dollar Order, 2000–2025 History rarely announces its turning points. The ones that seem obvious in retrospect were not always recognized as pivots in the moment; they were recognized as catastrophes, opportunities, or curiosities, and only later assembled into the narratives we use to explain them. The first twenty-five…

  • The Long Ledger, Addendum

    The Realignment Has Already Begun The Iran Conflict, the Petrodollar, and the Economic Pivot Nobody Voted For A caveat before anything else: this post was written in late March 2026, while the conflict is still active and the full picture is still forming. Some of what is documented here will look different in six months;…

  • The Long Ledger: Part 1

    The economic motivations behind conflicts from 1914 to 1945 shaped wartime decisions, international relations, and postwar policies, revealing deeper motivations beyond ideological narratives.