What if the most important divide in American life isn’t left or right, but whether we still govern ourselves at all? We pull on a single thread—sovereignty—and watch how it explains the fractures you feel every day: priorities set far from home, speech boundaries drawn by fear, and policies that seem to serve unseen hands. Instead of treating corruption as a few bad actors, we examine the mechanism of leverage and secrecy that can bend institutions away from public consent and toward private...
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What if the most important divide in American life isn’t left or right, but whether we still govern ourselves at all? We pull on a single thread—sovereignty—and watch how it explains the fractures you feel every day: priorities set far from home, speech boundaries drawn by fear, and policies that seem to serve unseen hands. Instead of treating corruption as a few bad actors, we examine the mechanism of leverage and secrecy that can bend institutions away from public consent and toward private...
The stock chart goes up, but whose life gets better. We open with a blunt question: what is an economy for if not to help people build stable lives. From shuttered factories to soaring rents, we trace how a market unmoored from national obligations turns efficiency into fragility, rewarding cost arbitrage while eroding the foundations families depend on. Instead of reheated talking points about capitalism and socialism, we offer a practical lens: judge every policy by whether it strengthens w...
Parallel Polis Podcast
What if the most important divide in American life isn’t left or right, but whether we still govern ourselves at all? We pull on a single thread—sovereignty—and watch how it explains the fractures you feel every day: priorities set far from home, speech boundaries drawn by fear, and policies that seem to serve unseen hands. Instead of treating corruption as a few bad actors, we examine the mechanism of leverage and secrecy that can bend institutions away from public consent and toward private...
