The Inner Monologue

When the gilded dust finally settles on the Trump presidency, the question left echoing across Pennsylvania Avenue will not be one of politics but of cost: Who pays to undo it all?Not the rhetoric. Not the polarization. The ballroom. It is FY2029, the so-called Billionaires’ Ballroom, built in the footprint of the historic White House…

When money compounds faster than time, democracy begins to decay.Our most recent projection of the wealthiest Americans—using their age, life expectancy, and historical growth rates—reveals an unsustainable future. The Numbers That Break the Republic Under a 10 percent annual net return—roughly the aggressive pace achieved by the world’s largest fortunes—the next quarter-century of compounding turns…

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Authoritarian regimes are rarely built by a single man. They are built by coalitions—fervent believers, cynical opportunists, idealists, fanatics, and those simply desperate for belonging. In America’s current populist right, the MAGA movement represents a broad and combustible mix of all these types. Its factions—radical populists, religious nationalists, tech-libertarians, and establishment opportunists—each play a distinct…

To imagine the moment when humanity assembles a sentient, super-intelligent being from 100 percent synthetic DNA is to contemplate the end of evolution as we have known it and the beginning of deliberate creation. It is not a question of whether it could be done, but when—and what it will mean when it is. Every…

For most of modern history, when a new generation discovered something wrong with its food—too much meat, too much gluten, too many animals dying—it didn’t create a new cuisine. It simply adapted the old. The innovation was prosthetic: the same burger, but now made from peas; the same pizza, but now gluten-free; the same milk,…

There is a strange sickness in the American mind — a kind of economic hypochondria. Despite towering skyscrapers, trillion-dollar tech firms, and a gross domestic product per person higher than the average citizen earns in a year, the United States walks around insisting it’s broke. Politicians wail that we can’t afford healthcare. News anchors ask…

Ah, the future. A gleaming utopia where algorithms streamline our lives, eliminate inefficiency, and—oh yeah—completely screw over anyone who doesn’t fit neatly into their binary, bug-riddled logic. If you want a preview of this brave new world, look no further than YouTube’s demonetization algorithm, a Kafkaesque nightmare that’s basically a training montage for how AI…

There’s an odd thing about us humans that we rarely pause to notice: we are among the few animals on Earth who cannot simply lie down and rest. A cat curls into a crescent and drifts into dreams. A cow folds its legs and naps on grass. A bird tucks its head under a wing,…