The Inner Monologue

I. The Industry of Suffering Imagine, for a moment, a society where the right to breathe was privatized. Where a corporation owned the air, and your ability to inhale depended on your insurance premium. Outrageous, right? Yet that is precisely what we have allowed with the pharmaceutical industry in America. The right to live without…

There’s a quiet beauty in owning things that outpace our current needs. Not in the greedy, hoarding sense, but in the aspirational one—the belief that certain objects are investments in the person we might yet become. Tools and books are the best examples of this principle: both are enablers of potential. Owning Tools: A Vote…

The electric revolution will not happen all at once. It will happen in increments, through evolution rather than proclamation. The assumption that the world can leap directly from internal combustion to pure battery power is as unrealistic as it is romantic. Batteries are still heavy, charging infrastructure is still patchy, and human behavior still clings…

Every few months, a chart flashes across social media showing U.S. mortgage debt at “record highs.” The line rises like a mountain range—steep, relentless, crimson red. It is meant to alarm: proof, supposedly, that Americans have once again mortgaged their futures. But if we pause and adjust our perspective—correcting for inflation and home values—the mountain…

History rarely belongs to the loudest voice. It belongs to the person who volunteers for the committee no one else wants to sit on, who learns the bylaws, who stays until the end of the meeting when everyone else has gone home. It belongs to those who infiltrate the structure—not to corrupt it, but to…

The Myth of the Free World We like to believe the world is an open canvas — that creativity, invention, and progress arise spontaneously from the mind of the individual. But look closely, and you’ll find the lines already drawn. Nearly every object you touch, every system you use, every decision made in a boardroom…

Let’s be real: time travel stories are wildly optimistic about how well-adjusted their protagonists are in the past (or future). Sure, Marty McFly nails 1955 like he was born there, and Outlander’s Claire Fraser somehow doesn’t immediately die of dysentery while also sounding like she stepped out of a BBC period drama. But in reality?…

There is a peculiar dilemma that haunts the truly intelligent — the burden of witnessing ignorance disguised as intellect. It is not merely the absence of understanding that troubles them, but the arrogance of those who boast of wisdom they do not possess. The self-proclaimed “smart” are rarely so; for true intelligence wears humility like…

My fellow Americans, When I first stood before you as President, I took an oath — not of comfort, not of convenience, but of conscience. I swore to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States. Yet over these past years, I have come to understand that the Constitution is not a shield…

There’s an old playground solution to a timeless problem of fairness: one child cuts the pie, the other chooses the slice.It’s simple, self-enforcing, and immune to moral posturing. No trust required. No speeches about unity or compromise.Just balanced self-interest, beautifully constrained. If America’s two-party system adopted this principle, we might finally restore balance not through…