The Inner Monologue

There is a certain breed of generosity that mistakes altitude for impact. It builds shining monuments to progress in places still begging for foundations. It dreams in skylines while the streets remain unpaved. It reaches for the noble and inspirational, as if charity were a stage and human struggle merely the backdrop. And in that…

A meditation on a quiet ideological drift Governments rarely wake up one morning and declare their core mission invalid. They do not throw away their founding charters in a single dramatic gesture. They drift. Slowly at first. Then steadily. Then all at once, the mission has inverted — and the institution, once designed to serve…

There was a time when American persuasion aspired to logic, or at least the shadow of it. We debated policy. We invoked facts. We believed that if we could just explain enough — taxes, welfare, war, budgets — others would see the light. That era is gone. Today, absurdity is not the fringe. It is…

In an age saturated with confidence, the simplest tests have begun masquerading as triumphs. We live in a culture where baseline competence is confused with achievement, where “not failing” is recast as “excelling,” and where even a routine medical screen can be spun into evidence of extraordinary brilliance. That is how we arrive at the…

Ah, humanity—the species that invented science, logic, and reason, then collectively decided, “Nah, I’d rather believe this Facebook meme from my uncle.” Despite living in the golden age of information, where facts are literally at our fingertips, some of us cling to debunked nonsense like it’s a life raft on the Titanic. Let’s explore why…

Let’s talk about the English language for a second—or, more accurately, let’s talk about how it’s actively gaslighting us at the grocery store. You’re in the snack aisle, just trying to live your life, when you see two labels that should make sense but instead feel like a personal attack: So to recap: Why? Who…

There is a comforting story we tell ourselves: that there is one shared world, one common experience, one reality in which all of us live our lives. It is a story built into civics lessons, moral lectures, economic theories, and the illusions of democracy and markets. It makes society feel rational, navigable, coherent. But wander…

In an earlier era, protest meant abstention. To boycott was to withdraw, to starve a system of attention, labor, and capital. We deprive the merchant by refusing his wares; we reclaim our dignity by denying him our dollars. It is an act of absence, a moral exit. But the modern economy has mutated. Platforms are…