Werner Mouton

I write about political economy, history, culture, and the forces that shape how people live.
Essays and spoken pieces on power, money, work, memory, technology, and ordinary life.
All work is free. If it matters to you, support it on Patreon.

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Steinbeck on Monsters

John Steinbeck wrote in East of Eden, ‘I believe there are monsters born in the world to human parents.’

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There Was No Golden Age

Trump built his message to voters on “Make America Great Again.” MAGA. These four letters did the same work Weyl described in his paragraph. Trump knew the trick.

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The Pope

The Pope stood at a window of the Apostolic Palace. The square below was full. It was Sunday and the light was on the stone and the crowd waited. He was seventy years old and the first American to wear the soutane.

I write about political economy, history, culture, and the forces that shape how people live.

Essays and spoken pieces on power, money, work, memory, technology, and ordinary life.

All work is free. If it matters to you, support it on Patreon.

Steinbeck on Monsters

There Was No Golden Age

The Pope

Werner Mouton