Heal Thyself

Heal Thyself

From my article in City Journal. Institutions vary greatly in how they function. Some, like SpaceX or Amazon, achieve far more than their peers. Some carry on in unexceptional fashion, like IBM. And some lurch from crisis to crisis while causing collateral damage to...
Reform Is Driven by Rising Elites

Reform Is Driven by Rising Elites

From my article in Palladium Magazine. America’s failures, like those of any society, have deep roots. They can be traced to some fundamental misunderstanding of reality. In our society, one of these is a dissonant evaluation of elites. America’s elites are seen to be...
Why Civilizations Collapse

Why Civilizations Collapse

From my article in The Side View. Why do civilizations collapse? This question bears not only on safeguarding our society’s future but also makes sense of our present. The answer relies on some of the same technē that humanity needed to build civilization in the first...