California Über Alles: The Final Rebrand of Kamala Harris
In the last days of any empire, the managers of decay will claim to be the architects of renewal…
Kamala Harris has always been more product than principle.
From her earliest days as a prosecutor locking up the powerless, to her time as Vice President presiding over the same corporate weapons deals she once claimed to oppose, she has embodied the logic of an exhausted system.
Operating Systems of Empire: How the West Lost Its Code
For the last century, Western civilization has framed itself as a final, perfected narrative — an operating system with no alternative. But beneath the polished interfaces of democracy, human rights, and progress, the system has begun to fatally crash.
If you really zoom out, this isn’t about any sort of sensationalized narrative setting.
‘East versus West’ is a painfully binary construct.
‘Putin is a dictator impugning on democratic freedoms’ ignorantly overlooks the historic precedents that led to Russia’s current state.
The core root of the issue? Civilizations behaving like compiling architectures — living systems of logic and memory that must be versioned, debugged, and sometimes recompiled.
From Spencer to Washburne: Elite Texas Prep School Incubates White Supremacy Across Generations
In 2016, I sat in the St. Mark’s newsroom as they deliberated on how to portray Richard Spencer: a neo-Nazi, the driving force behind alt-right political extremism… and a Class of ’97 alumnus. They called him ‘an outlier.’ Even back then, I knew it was a lie.
In the American imagination, private preparatory schools like St. Mark’s School of Texas project an image of genteel prestige and enlightened leadership.
But behind the polished brochures and polished LinkedIn résumés lies an unbroken thread of Euro-American supremacist ideology that stretches across generations.