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The Epistemic Boundary: A Structural Account of Consciousness, Meaning, and the Limits of Formal Systems
Or: Why Gödel, Hume, and Heisenberg Are Telling Us the Same Thing
9 hrs ago • 
Mike Brock
A Short, Victorious War
This Is Exactly What the Founders Warned Us About
15 hrs ago • 
Mike Brock
The Modern American Conservative Movement is Bankrupt and Anti-American
The modern American conservative movement claims the mantle of the Founders while systematically rejecting everything the Founders built.
21 hrs ago • 
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On Comfortable Lies and the Pain of Knowing
Truth Costs More Than Most People Are Willing to Pay
Nov 14 • 
Mike Brock
There is Only One Way Out
I’ve been re-watching Tony Gilroy’s masterpiece Andor. In the first season, the story reaches one of its most evocative moral crescendos when Andy…
Nov 13 • 
Mike Brock
If Morality Had Bankruptcy Lawyers: Michael Wolff, Mike Solana, and the Age of Ethical Insolvency
The Marketization of Conscience in an Age Without Shame
Nov 12 • 
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They’re Not Hiding It and It's Not Irony
The Trump administration just quietly removed a memorial to Black U.S.
Nov 11 • 
Mike Brock
A Letter to America
From an American with Love
Nov 11 • 
Mike Brock
Chuck Schumer Doesn’t Know What Time It Is
After forty days.
Nov 10 • 
Mike Brock
The Two Materialisms: Why I’m a Liberal
A Comprehensive Defense of the Liberal Tradition and a Case for Its Renewal
Nov 9 • 
Mike Brock
The Cycle Theory of Moral Cowardice
Jason Calacanis and the Sophisticated Art of Excusing Everything
Nov 8 • 
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Who’s Actually Practicing Taqiyya?
Shaun Maguire—venture capital partner, SpaceX bet winner, sophisticated bigot—wants you to know that Zohran Mamdani “comes from a culture that lies…
Nov 8 • 
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