Ideas
About power and the language, structures, and incentives that shape how decisions get made. How markets stay competitive. How citizens engage with self-governance. How the country plans for finite resources. Get these right and the room for productive policy widens. As it stands, these areas might be preventing us from productive discussions.
Fundamental representation failures
- Representation → — the structural problem that points to a constitutional convention
- People's Assembly → — a framework for topical citizen oversight, with an example for PA-3
Fundamental failures in economics, governance, and resource management
Capitalism needs Game MaintenanceDrafting
Rule design that keeps markets competitive — the "game maintenance" framework. Transparency, competition preservation, and dynamic balancing applied to wealth and market concentration.
Read the essay →
American ExperimentDrafting
A diagnostic of declining civic participation and trust, plus a strategy for revival. Civic infrastructure, structural fixes to incentives, and the deliberative mechanisms that make meaningful participation possible.
Read the essay →
Fossil FuelsDrafting
Fossil fuels are finite. We depend on them. No adequate replacement is currently deployed at scale. Therefore, we need a plan. This proposal is the case for the planning, not the plan itself.
Read the essay →
How to engage
Same engagement model as the rest of the site. Read, contribute corrections or sources via GitHub, or propose larger work — see the contribute page for the mechanics.
If a planned slot interests you and you want to draft it, that's a propose-tier contribution. Open an issue first to align on scope.