The federal debt crossed forty trillion dollars on August 19, months earlier than investors had penciled in. Every instrument Congress built to restrain itself has now been tested and found ornamental, which leaves the constraint to a body that holds no hearings and issues no warnings.
Read article →The developing brain of the American child has become the raw material of an extractive industry that mines attention as its predecessors mined coal. A neuroscientific and anthropological examination of dopaminergic capture, and why the domestic church — not the federal guideline — remains the only proportionate response.
Read article →A machine cannot bear moral responsibility, yet the architects of global governance now ask us to entrust conscience itself to code. An analysis of the supranational regulatory machinery — UN advisory bodies, Brussels-style AI statutes, multistakeholder forums — and its quiet transfer of authority from nations and families to structures that answer to no one.
Read article →A man of fifty-five, carrying the aftermath of a succession of strokes and heart attacks, obtained authorization to die. His ninety-six-year-old father appealed and litigated for two years; Spain's Supreme Court granted him standing in June; on August 26 he withdrew, exhausted. The file closes without anyone having examined the premise holding the whole thing up: that there are dignified deaths because there are lives that have ceased to be so.
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