The Matrix, the American Political Devolution, and the Architecture of Choice.

| THE CIVIC BRIEF — October 2026, Episode #1 SEASON 2

'The MAGA Paradox' and How Political Minorities Acquire Majority-Like Governing Power.

The W.i.S.E. Strategic Foresight Watch™ | Monday Update | 12 October 2026

The Republic Is Still Correctable. But Correction Is Getting More Expensive.

Welcome to Year Two of The Civic Brief—and to a Different Kind of Civic Experience.

W.i.S.E. STRATEGIC FORESIGHT WATCH™

Compound Security, Unlocked Enters Its Third Year — and This Is Essay No. 745

A conditions-based Compound Hormuz Watch update — September 29, 2026

Season 2 premiere of The Civic Brief.

THREE “W.i.S.E. STRATEGIC FORESIGHT WATCH™” REPORTS.

Celebrating my big sister, author and veteran Nita Clarke.

W.i.S.E. Strategic Foresight Watch, No, 29 | 25 September 2026 | Late Evening EDT

An Inaugural Quarterly W.i.S.E. Strategic Foresight Watch™ Rollup.

A W.i.S.E. Threshold Call on the widening gap between what advanced AI agents are told to do—and what our institutions can reliably prevent them from doing *24 September 2026*

Part Three of a three-part introduction to the W.i.S.E. Strategic Foresight Watch™—American Republic Watch.

Part Two of a three-part introduction to the W.i.S.E. Strategic Foresight Watch™—American Republic Watch.

Part One of a three-part introduction to the W.i.S.E. Strategic Foresight Watch™—American Republic Watch.

AI’s Parents, the “Apocaloptimist” Bargain, and the Race to a Destination No One Can Define.

NEW W.i.S.E. STRATEGIC FORESIGHT WATCH™ — NO. 26

Mark Carney Europe and the Geopolitical Logic of the Compound Age.

The Oath Project Take the oath. Make it yours.   https://www.acslaw.org/the-oath-project/ The Constitution belongs to all of us. This Constitution Day, join people across the country in taking a si...

W.i.S.E. STRATEGIC FORESIGHT WATCH™ WEEKLY ROLLUP

Why 2014 Marks the Threshold of the Compound Age.

The Narrow Place Where Humanity Can Still Govern the Race—and How We Will Know If It Is Breaking.

Why Governing Artificial Superintelligence May Make the Nuclear Arms Race Look Like the Manageable Dilemma.

When Courage, Privilege, and Empire Forget What There Is to Fear.

What We Have Forgotten Twenty-Five Years After September 11.

What Happened to America “After” the Attack?

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Week of 09.06.26 to 09.13.26

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1774 Made Americans. What Has 2026 Made of Us?

A WILSON W.i.S.E. CONSULTING, LLC Service.

The Missing Half of the Imperial Presidency.

The Iran Conflict, the Politics of Naming, and the Disappearing Constitutional Boundary Between Peace and War.

Data Centers, Dispossession, and the Strange Karma of the American Frontier.

We are racing to build machines that can think.

The Military-Industrial Complex Is No Longer Big Enough to Explain American Power.

Dolly Parton and the Vanishing American “We”

From Operational Art to Theater-Strategic Art in the U.S.–Canada Trade War.

What America’s Advertising May Be Trying to Tell Us About American Power.

Could America’s Missile Shortage Make Washington More Cautious About Using Force?

Introducing my **new LongForm essay**, "The Fleet at the Breaking Point: America’s Carrier Crisis and the Compound Readiness of U.S. Power."

America Is Rediscovering Limited Nuclear War in a World Far More Dangerous Than the One That Invented It.

A "Retro-Speculative Futures" View from the Compound Age.

The Dangerous Convictions Behind Congress's Silence.

What a fictional civil war fought with dragons can teach us about the very real danger of winning ourselves into strategic decline.

Perhaps. But America Has Another Name for It: ‘The Democratic Party’ (!)

Ten Practical Options for Ending the U.S.-Iran War Without Abandoning American Interests.