Synthetic Civilization
AI, power, governance, and the future of civilization.
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The Last Aristocrats of the Mind
The rent roll failed before the invitations did
In the 1880s an English landowner could read two documents about his own life and reach opposite conclusions. One was the rent roll. The other was the invitation list.
The rent roll was f...
You Are Winning the Data Center Fight
On August 19, 2026, the Senate Republican campaign committee sent a private memo to a group of technology companies. It was titled “Ohio Data Center Risk.” Its argument was that Sherrod Brown had made data centers the de facto opponent in h...
The University Sold the Ladder
Editor’s note: This essay continues the Synthetic Civilization political economy series. The first essay, “Output Without Income,” argued that AI may preserve production while weakening the wage-based social bargain. The second, “The Market...
Synthetic Nonalignment
Most states will never possess full-stack AI autonomy, and the sooner their planners accept it the better their odds. The point is not that ambition is misplaced. It is that the frontier stack, the chips, the fabrication, the cloud, the fou...
The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere Returns Without an Empire
The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere was one of the twentieth century’s most cynical political names. Imperial Japan presented it as an Asian order built on liberation, cooperation, and shared prosperity. In practice, it subordinated...
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The AI future is being allocated before it is debated. Essays on power, work, markets, states, war, and who gets left outside.
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