The Inner Monologue

It was supposed to be the miracle cure. After a century of dithering, denial, and half-measures, humanity finally produced a breakthrough: a synthetic organism engineered to eat carbon dioxide. Scientists called it Carboxis. It was simple, elegant, and voracious. A bacterium-like lifeform that thrived in sunlight, absorbed CO₂ faster than any tree, and left behind…

We live in an age obsessed with maximums. A phone that charges in ten minutes. An electric car with 500 miles of range. A house with twice the rooms you’ll ever enter. These promises dazzle us, yet in practice they rarely change how we live. After all, if you charge your phone overnight and drive…

Every era leaves fingerprints on language, but some decades don’t bother with subtlety. Instead, they grab a single syllable, inflate it with cultural meaning, and glue it onto everything in sight. Suddenly, grammar isn’t doing the work—vibes are. This is how prefixes and suffixes become fashion accessories. The process is familiar, almost mechanical. A technical…

There persists, among certain Americans, a misunderstanding so profound that it continues to generate paperwork at an unsustainable rate. This misunderstanding is the belief that protest is an act performed within the system, rather than an event that places the individual under review by the system. This confusion is understandable. The language surrounding rights has…

There is a peculiar confidence in deportation policy.It assumes time is on our side. In the mid-2020s, the United States is removing hundreds of thousands of people from its economy, its labor force, and its future with the serene belief that this is a problem permanently solved. Planes depart. Court dockets clear. Press releases speak…

There is a dangerous myth circulating in the United States: that resisting authoritarianism is somehow patriotic. This idea is not only wrong—it is profoundly un-American. True Americans do not resist their government.True Americans submit. Let us begin with first principles. America is a nation founded on trust. Not mutual trust, of course—just trust flowing in…

Why Online Retailers Like Amazon Must Be Liable for Fraudulent and Dangerous Products Online retail platforms insist they are “just marketplaces.” That claim no longer survives contact with reality. Modern platforms curate listings, control search visibility, process payments, warehouse inventory, set return policies, collect commissions, and—critically—profit from every transaction. When fraud or dangerous products pass…

There’s a quiet irony in the way human culture has flipped over the centuries. Once upon a time, when people made nearly everything they used, the products of life were unique, but the people themselves were bound to conformity. Today, when almost no one makes anything, our lives are filled with mass-produced sameness—but our hunger…

Americans love the Bill of Rights in the same way toddlers love the concept of “mine.” They clutch it, wave it around, and shout about it—without any measurable understanding of how it works, where it comes from, or who gets to decide what it means when the rubber meets the boot. Take the Second Amendment.…

By The Author When Paul Pelosi was bludgeoned with a hammer in his own home, the nation should have recoiled in horror. Instead, many on the right snickered, spread conspiracy theories, and treated the assault as fodder for memes. This wasn’t just cruelty; it was a symptom of a deeper disease in our politics: selective…