Practical Sovereignty
Financial Privacy
On the Credit Reporting System as Surveillance Infrastructure, Financial Data Brokers, Cryptocurrency and Privacy Coins, and the Cash Argument
The Cartographer
Practical Sovereignty
Faraday Pouches
On When to Actually Use One and When It Is Theater, the Practical Use Cases versus the Paranoia Gradient, and the Device That Cannot Be Found
Practical Sovereignty
Defense in Depth
On Why No Single Measure Is Sufficient, the Philosophy of Layered Security as a Life Practice, and the Failure Mode of the Single Point of Perfection
Practical Sovereignty
Dead Drops
On Physical and Digital Dead Drops, the Intelligence Tradition and Its Contemporary Applications, and the Connection to the Alembic's Physical Artifact Work
Practical Sovereignty
Compartmentalization
On how the spy cell becomes a personal security principle, and why the compromise of one domain need not corrupt them all
Practical Sovereignty
Bluetooth Attack Surface
On BlueBorne, BlueSmack, the Forgotten Radio, and Why to Disable Bluetooth When You Are Not Using It
Practical Sovereignty
Amazon and AWS
On the Invisible Infrastructure That Runs the Internet, AWS as a Geopolitical Actor, and What It Means That Your Server Lives in Jeff Bezos's Building
Plato
Plato Now
On Why Plato Belongs in This Curriculum, Two and a Half Millennia After He Died, and What He Still Has to Say
Plato
The Republic We Don't Talk About
On the City in the Soul, the Inner Constitution, and Why Plato's Most Famous Work Is Actually About the Interior Life
Plato
Eros as Philosophical Force
On the Symposium, the Ladder of Love, and the Tradition That Understood Desire as the Engine of Ascent
Plato
The Allegory of the Cave
On What Plato's Most Famous Image Actually Says, Why the Reading That Matters Is Not the One You Were Taught, and What the Prisoner's Journey Demands
Plato
The Philosopher Everyone Thinks They've Read
On Plato, the Distortions History Performed on His Work, and Why Reading Him Directly Remains an Act of Genuine Subversion