First Foundation
Building for the Next Saeculum Forward What This Document Is First Foundation is not a blueprint for any one political system. It is a framework for institutional renewal—a collection of design patterns intended to help…
The Hidden Circuitry of the Four Turnings
The Neuroeconomic Cycle Driving Empathy, Fear, and the Shape of History Updated August 2025 — Now includes the full neurochemical model of Turning transitions, revealing the hidden triggers that drive history’s most dramatic shifts. What…
A Tale of Future History
Imagine you’re reading this in 1974. You’ve just watched Nixon resign. Vietnam is winding down. The economy is rocky, but manageable. You’ve grown up in the shadow of WWII and lived through the civil rights…
George Will and Today’s Conservatism
George Will wrote that “Conservatism has always been defined by its insistence on limits to the claims the collectivity — the public sector — could make on the individual,” in a recent article I read…
On the Results of My Race
TL;DR – The outcome was pretty much what I expected. California Assembly District 71 is a really conservative area. In fact, in the 2022 election, there wasn’t even a Democratic candidate—it was just three Republicans…