Policy and Critique

Exploring the psychological roots of tyranny and the collective amnesia that enables authoritarian rule.

Examining the structural patterns of institutional coordination and their implications for understanding power.

Testing the coordination mechanism theory across different historical contexts and religious traditions.

Examining the organizational structures and enforcement mechanisms that enabled religious mobilization for elite objectives.

Examining the economic returns and resource flows generated by crusading for different institutional actors.

A historical exploration of how religious institutions mobilized populations for elite economic interests through the Crusades and beyond.

Exploring how religious institutions solve coordination problems for elite projects.

Investigates failures in space, medicine, and nuclear energy driven by a lack of common sense.

Examines the military-industrial complex and the 'Zombie' projects that refuse to die.

A historical exploration of why brilliant designs lead to catastrophic failures.