College enrollment and completion have long trended upward in California, but enrollment declined during the pandemic. What might the state’s colleges and universities expect in the future? While Cali...

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This brief explores the constitutional foundation of corporate personhood, its impact on democracy, and the rise of dark money in elections.

Commentary on Seth (2025): Unity is intrinsic to being both an experiencing and an embodied subject. Computational accounts of consciousness, being observer-relative, cannot account for this unity. The thermodynamics of life can but, contra Seth’s suggestion, the free energy principle fails to capture the distinctive metabolic interdependencies by virtue of which a living system constitutes itself as a unified perspective on the world.