The game unfolds the way it always has, without apology, without hurry, without the slightest concern for what the rest… Read more
Category: Ethics
Why Rockets Don’t Care What You Believe
At a launch site in Florida, the moments before liftoff carry an odd restraint. Engineers sit behind glass walls, studying… Read more
Why Transparency Works and Authority Fights It
The story begins, as so many stories do these days, with something that seemed purely technical and ended somewhere much… Read more
The Machinery of Democracy: Literature as a Software Service and a Public Good
In 2020, Kanye West tried to get on the presidential ballot in Wisconsin. He needed 2,000 signatures. He submitted 2,422…. Read more
The Quiet Return of Taxation Without Representation
Bruce Richardson has spent a lifetime around tea. He runs Elmwood Inn Fine Teas in Danville, Kentucky, imports leaves from… Read more
America’s Most Underrated Engine of Opportunity
Evening light spills across the parking lot of a community college as classrooms begin to fill for the night. Students… Read more
How a Consumer Protection Law Became a Corporate Accounting Game
A woman stands at a pharmacy counter on a gray Tuesday afternoon, sliding her insurance card across the laminate. She… Read more
Adaptive Hiring: A Human-Centered Way to Build Future-Ready Teams
Tuesday mornings in shared workspaces look the same across the country. Coffee cups gather beside laptops. Notifications blink with quiet… Read more
The Moral Difference Between Effort and Outcome
American life has developed a convenient habit: we treat outcomes as moral verdicts. If you succeed, you must have earned… Read more
What We Learned by Watching What Didn’t Break
Every December, we make the same mistake. We treat the year as something to summarize rather than something to absorb…. Read more