10 items tagged #sovereignty

A week with a Breton builder who believes abundance will end politics, and a few places where his own essays argue with him.

Spending a week inside one writer's body of work, from Vienna seminars to tallow lamps, and leaving with a few opinions of my own.

Anyone can knock down an institution on paper. The harder lesson is how to rebuild one.

A teacher whose office hours never close is a gift, as long as the student remembers whose mind is being educated.

Armies take territory; culture takes people, and it arrives as noise too slight to seem worth resisting.

Two societies can share a language, a climate, and a constitution, and still raise entirely different people, depending on where each one keeps its answers.

The machine everyone feared would come for bodies is coming for systems instead, and systems were never built to survive it.

Every model that learns a population's habits is also teaching that population which of its habits are legible to the model.

Precision is the last line of defense before a word can be made to mean its opposite.

On sovereignty, soul, and why the ridgeline keeps the better ledger.