https://t.co/WL1SbYAGvo After September 11, the national security apparatus discovered that Silicon Valley had already built something it could never have constructed on its own: a commercial surveillance infrastructure of unprecedented scope. The partnership that

Episode 2 in the New Leviathan Series has been released: "The Surveillance Economy: From Data Collection to Digital Control"

What happens when emergency becomes permanent? When the logic of exception becomes the logic of governance? When the state designed to manage poverty discovers it can also manage fear? https://t.co/iwqnwoXrMg

This episode serves as a bridge connecting our last series on the evolution of the General Welfare clause into the Administrative State and the New Leviathan where governance finds continued expansion via emergency power. We will reflect on how we got here and preview the arc

In this final entry, we reflect on how this series has traced the transformation from Madison’s enumerated republic to Hamilton’s administrative state. From restraint to capacity. From structure to procedure. From limited government to what we have today:

Episode 9: Epilogue: From General Welfare to the Great Society—The Arc of Administrative Power -- Click link in the comments for the full episode👇

Equate dollars into seconds to try to comprehend the enormity of our debt: 1 million seconds in the past was 11.5 days ago 1 billion seconds in the past was 31.7 years ago 1 trillion seconds in the past was 31,709 years ago Now realize our debt is $39 Trillion and rising

The Conservative Counterrevolution. Intellectual dominance. Rhetorical victory. Electoral success. But the administrative state survived intact. Spending grew. Agencies remained. Entitlements were untouched. Debt exploded. Why? Because institutions are more durable than ideas.

Episode 8: The Conservative Counterrevolution: Reagan and the Limits of Rolling Back the State -- Click link in the comments for the full episode👇

This episode shows how legislative programs became constitutional rights—the final step in making the welfare state permanent. How Hamilton’s vision of general welfare through Roosevelt’s revolution of 1937 through to Johnson’s Great Society became entrenched and immune to

Episode 7: The New Property: Welfare Rights, Goldberg v. Kelly, and Proceduralization of Dependence -- Click link in the comments for the full episode👇

Jefferson asked: "Are we more free, or more governed?" Article 6 in our series introduces a framework that measures what politicians ACTUALLY DO—not their rhetoric or party label. The "moderate center" has shifted 140 points left since 1790. It's time to measure the trajectory.

This episode shows LBJ wielding the constitutional and administrative machinery built by Hamilton (1787), validated by the Supreme Court (1937), and institutionalized through the APA (1946)—deploying it all with moral fervor for the Great Society.

Episode 6: The Great Society: How LBJ Perfected the Welfare State Hamilton Built and Roosevelt Normalized -- Click link in the comments for the full episode 👇

I have written about this extensively in my series on politics, ideologies and systems. In my piece on Systems, I actually present in detail (with academic citations) the most rational and objective argument I can FOR Socialism in order to illustrate the hope compassionate people

Socialism is not logically possible, desirability for equity is inconsequential to this fundamental truth. Understanding this debate illuminates the relationship between economic theory and political ideology. Ludwig von Mises’ “Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth”

In 1776 - 1 in 5 Americans owned and read Thomas Paine's 20,000 word pamphlet, Common Sense. Today many cannot stand to read more than a headline and then scroll past. When you choose to not understand history, logic, markets, and price calculations, then yes free stuff

If you are looking at election results and wondering how an avowed socialist was elected in our largest city, I will tell you it is not because we do not demonstrate the failures of socialism enough, rather it is because we do not discuss capitalism enough. And we do not

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Episode 4: The Constitutional Revolution of 1937—Helvering and Wickard -- Click link in the comments for the full episode 👇