From Potential to Actual

How intentions shape reality and experience reshapes who we become.

The Scales of Injustice

How modern courts absolve the guilty and punish the innocent.

The Wholly Trinity Hiding in Plain Sight

 How thinking, feeling and acting develop into empathy, metacognition and wisdom.

The Clancy Defence and the Lunacy of Mens Rea

A mother argues that hallucinations absolve her from responsibility for the deaths of her three children.

My Republic

On the governance of Self...

How China's Absence Became Detroit's Biggest Asset

Sometimes, the biggest market story is what investors don't see.

Why Beauty is Chosen Before it is Found

Beauty was chosen for sovereign living beings to discover themselves.

Déjà Vu in the Fog of War

Another Gulf War has arrived in earnest, and once again, the belligerents are missing the point.

The Minab Defence and the Fiction of Intent

How "outdated coordinates" pave the way for good intentions to absolve murder en masse.

The Ghetts Defence and the Mens Rea Mirage

Despite a horrible death, common law still peers past the wreckage and into the driver’s mind, hunting for intention long after the consequences have made themselves brutally clear.

The Criminalisation of Consciousness

In a world obsessed with criminalising intent, the finger of blame has shifted from what we 'do' to what we dare to 'think'.

The Day Precious Metals Became Ordinary

A single decision in Washington detonated a crowded safe-haven trade, turning gold and silver from market shelters into the epicenter of a global risk unwind almost overnight.

The Magnificent Narrative Upgrade

The world's seven most famous firms have found a new way to reinforce their brand identity.

Why Gold Without Freedom Never Shines

A billion-dollar prisoner's dilemma reveals that liberty, not luxury, defines the meaning of life.

The Truth of Yesteryear

When the stars decree, the earth bends the knee.

Death by Gross Domestic Product

If you keep track of GDP, you'll miss the forest for the trees.

The Fog of War in the Age of Screens

War doesn't determine who's right, it determines who's left.