Essays And Notes
A space where systems and surfaces meet: essays that uncover the economic, political, and cultural structures shaping how we live, alongside fragments drawn from books, culture, and daily life.
The Architecture of Paralysis
In political life, the absence of action is rarely the absence of choice. What looks like hesitation or indecision is often the outcome of a structure that makes inaction appear natural, even necessary.
Extraction Without Construction: On the Return of Trade as Control
For much of modernity, trade was seen as a structured system of reciprocity, governed by rules, stabilized by norms, and shaped by shared expectations.
The Strength Trap: How America's Power Moves Are Making It Weaker
With debt at 100% of GDP and harmful trade barriers, U.S. crisis response capacity erodes, threatening safety nets from 2008 and 2020, carrying major implications for business leaders.