Remember when #MeToo was going to topple every abusive boss, every predatory producer, every sleazy politician? Then something strange happened. The revolution ate its own foot soldiers. Here’s the dirty secret the performative liberal left doesn’t want you to talk about: The movement was never supposed to target the powerless middle manager. But that’s exactly…
How Elite Norms Are Encoded The Problem of Induction Every stable social order requires a mechanism for transmitting its tacit rules to new members. The elite man’s impunity cannot be declared openly. It must be induced. It must feel, to the inductee, not like a privilege granted but like a background condition of reality itself.…
The Pavement Where the everyman is the target of the accountability regime, the non-elite woman is its collateral damage. She is neither the intended beneficiary nor the intended target. She is the ground on which the impunity structure is built. The elite woman has a pedestal. The everyman has a cage. The non-elite woman has…
An inquiry into the E-Files – A revolving door of perverse incentives. Part I: The Revolving Door, Documented The revolving door between government and high finance is not a metaphor. It is a documented career pattern. And in the case of Jeffrey Epstein, it operated with remarkable precision. Fact: Epstein maintained accounts at JPMorgan Chase…