institutions

Homo economicus never existed but we still build policy like it does, and people keep getting hurt.

Mass incarceration, racial disparities, and brutal recidivism rates aren't system failures. They're system features.

Free access to information, open to everyone, no purchase required. If someone proposed public libraries today, they would be called a socialist.

When 'just following protocol' produces atrocities. The banality of cruelty in American institutions.

Once built, enforcement systems don't stay confined to their original targets. Institutional momentum ensures the machine keeps running.

Some policies exist to hurt people. That's the feature, not the bug. Deterrence through suffering laid bare.

Higher education stopped being about knowledge long ago. It's a sorting mechanism for employers, and the content is incidental to the credential.

Who gets to know things? Expertise isn't just competence, it's recognition. The politics of legitimate knowledge shapes what counts as truth.

The business model collapsed. The practice survives in unexpected places. What journalism means when the newspapers are gone.