This Live was not a reaction to a headline. It was an attempt to think out loud about what this moment actually is.
After publishing eleven Crisis essays, I wanted to step back from the events themselves and talk about the deeper architecture underneath them — popular sovereignty, moral inheritance, contingency, sacrifice, redemption, and the strange feeling that something in American civic life has shifted from drift to impact.
In this conversation, I move between philosophy and politics, between Wittgenstein and Thomas Jefferson, between narrative and law, between moral imagination and democratic responsibility. It is unscripted and unfiltered — not a performance, not a debate, but a real-time attempt to make sense of how we inherit freedom and what it means to exercise it when it’s under strain.
If you’ve been following the Crisis series, this Live provides the philosophical foundation beneath it. If you’re new, it offers a way into the larger project: the belief that sovereignty belongs to the people — not as a slogan, not as nostalgia, but as a living obligation.
The wire still holds.
