Civilization runs on political software written for a smaller world By Sean Hart February 15, 2026 Modern civilization commands extraordinary technical capability, yet repeatedly fails at coordination across borders, time horizons, and risk domains. Climate models refine their projections. Vaccines are developed in record time. Artificial intelligence systems scale with

By Sean Hart February 8, 2026 The Trump era often felt less like a governing project than a narrative loop, one in which events accumulated without consequence and reversals arrived without reflection, as if the state itself had adopted a rule borrowed from television comedy: no hugging, no learning. What

By Sean Hart February 6, 2026 The generative AI boom did not create a renaissance for writers. It exposed how thoroughly institutions had outsourced judgment, and how urgently they needed to reclaim it. When Business Insider declared that “the hottest job in tech” was writing words, the phrasing sounded almost

By Sean Hart February 7, 2026 The most consequential racial development of the Trump years was not a single policy or provocation, but the normalization of a governing posture in which racial conflict could be activated for leverage, denied as incoherent, and dismissed as fatigue, all without ever requiring resolution.

By Sean Hart February 6, 2026 Abstract The Agile Manifesto, published in 2001, articulated a values-based critique of prevailing software development practices, emphasizing face-to-face human interaction, rapid feedback, and practitioner judgment over process formalism and tool-mediated control. Its authors sought not to introduce a new management methodology but to restore

Why Systems Lose Meaning Before They Lose Motion By Sean Hart January 24, 2026 Modern systems rarely fail from lack of intelligence or effort; they fail because they no longer agree on what sits above them, a problem Wassily Kandinsky identified long before the language of systems thinking existed. Kandinsky’

By Sean Hart January 24, 2026 Two different kinds of ICE arrived at the same time, and the coincidence did more than overlap headlines. It collapsed categories. One was U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, an arm of the federal state whose presence has grown more visible, more physical, and

By Sean Hart January 15, 2026 The collision between Christ and punk rock is not a cultural novelty but a shared refusal, one ancient, one modern, both rejecting authority that mistakes itself for virtue. What Is Being Compared Christianity, at its institutional surface, is often treated as a moral system

By Sean Hart January 11, 2026 President Donald Trump’s second term has coalesced into a pattern that is hard to miss: decisive, unilateral uses of American power across Syria, Greenland, and Venezuela that prioritize leverage over legitimacy, and outcomes over optics, signaling a governing doctrine less concerned with consensus