The Persistence of Power - Part 5: Automation and the End of Labor's Bargaining Power18 January 2026·684 words·4 minsHistory and Critical Analysis Automation Labor Power Artificial Intelligence Inequality Development and Inequality Policy and Critique Systems Thinking Technological HistoryHow automation threatens to eliminate the last constraint on elite power: human labor's negotiating leverage.
The Persistence of Power - Part 4: Why Abolishing Private Property Always Recreates Elites11 January 2026·720 words·4 minsHistory and Critical Analysis Private Property Elites Socialism Hierarchy Power Reorganization Development and Inequality Policy and Critique Systems Thinking Technological HistoryAnalyzing why attempts to abolish private property fail to eliminate hierarchy, instead reorganizing it.
The Persistence of Power - Part 3: How Capitalism Stabilized Itself by Exporting Its Costs10 January 2026·750 words·4 minsHistory and Critical Analysis Capitalism Cost Displacement Globalization Inequality System Stabilization Development and Inequality Policy and Critique Systems Thinking Technological HistoryExploring how capitalism survived its internal crises by displacing costs geographically and socially.
The Persistence of Power - Part 2: Marx Was Right About Power—and Wrong About Its Cure9 January 2026·747 words·4 minsHistory and Critical Analysis Marx Capitalism Socialism Power Concentration Historical Analysis Development and Inequality Policy and Critique Systems Thinking Technological HistoryExamining Marx's accurate diagnosis of power concentration and why his proposed cure of abolishing private property failed.
The Persistence of Power: Class Struggle Beyond Ideology8 January 2026·143 words·1 minHistory and Critical Analysis Class Struggle Power Dynamics Capitalism Socialism Inequality Automation Development and Inequality Policy and Critique Systems Thinking Technological History Political EconomyExamining how class struggle persists across different economic systems and ideologies, from capitalism to socialism to emerging AI-driven automation.
The Persistence of Power - Part 1: The Persistence of Class Struggle: A Structural, Not Ideological, Reality8 January 2026·1007 words·5 minsHistory and Critical Analysis Class Struggle Power Dynamics Inequality Structural Analysis Development and Inequality Policy and Critique Systems Thinking Technological HistoryExploring how class struggle endures as a structural property across different systems and ideologies.
When AI Designs Without Consequence1 December 2025·3514 words·17 minsSystems and Innovation AI Design Technology Judgment Responsibility Innovation Design and Innovation Systems Thinking Decision-Making and Bias Technological HistoryAn exploration of AI's role in design, its strengths, limitations, and the importance of human judgment.
6 Mind-Bending Truths Hidden in History and Science28 November 2025·1672 words·8 minsHistory and Critical Analysis Military Technology Innovation Technological History Military and Logistics Design and InnovationSix surprising truths that challenge what we think we know about history and science, from concealed weapons to DNA-based computer hacks.
Arsenals of Influence: Adapting Battlefield Information Operations for Civilian Control15 May 2025·370 words·2 minsHistory and Critical Analysis Information Warfare Data Ethics Psychographics Digital Colonialism Cambridge Analytica Technological History Historical Case Studies Military and Logistics Policy and CritiqueAn investigation into the transformation of military psychological warfare into domestic political weaponry.
Arsenals of Influence: Adapting Battlefield Information Operations for Civilian Control - Part 3: The Unseen Occupant: Black Ops, Voter Suppression, and the New Global Cold War15 May 2025·1277 words·6 minsHistory and Critical Analysis Information Warfare Data Ethics Psychographics Digital Colonialism Cambridge Analytica Technological History Historical Case Studies Military and Logistics Policy and CritiqueExploring the fallout of clandestine operations and the emergence of algorithmic colonialism in the Global South.