History and Critical Analysis

Proposing a new restoration story based on deliberative democracy and the concept of public luxury.

Utilizing complex systems theory to explain the 2008 crash and the impending ecological collapse.

Connecting the neurobiology of social pain to the political ascent of the "killer clowns."

Analyzing how privatization and "rent-seeking" hollowed out the welfare state and concentrated global wealth.

Tracing the rise of corporate-funded think tanks and the deliberate dismantling of the social contract.

Investigating the origins of neoliberalism and its foundations in the "fairy tale" of colonial extraction.

The story of Sir John Mandeville's fabricated travels that shaped European exploration for centuries.

The story of John Law's paper money system that created Europe's first speculative bubble.

The story of Maximilien Robespierre, whose pursuit of virtue led to the Reign of Terror and his own execution.

Exploring how leaders and thinkers created systems that led to their own downfall through overconfidence in planning, ideology, finance, and narrative.