How to design constitutional systems that prevent tyranny by maintaining institutional strength, screening dangerous leaders, and creating redundant checks that make consolidation mathematically impossible.
Analyzing why some tyrannies endure for decades while others collapse within years, through the lens of coalition dynamics, succession challenges, and external shocks.
How power transforms personality, institutions decay systematically, and coalitions evolve through positive feedback loops that make tyranny self-reinforcing.
Exploring the mathematical framework that predicts when democracy falls to tyranny through the alignment of personal ambition, institutional weakness, and coalition strength.
A systemic X-ray of neoliberalism, turning citizens into consumers, a tollbooth economy extracting rent from essentials, and shifting blame onto individuals. The fix, a restoration story built on cooperation, commons, and participatory democracy.