Ch 5.10 | Prove Me Wrong: What Charlie Kirk’s Death Should Teach Us.

Why defending the right to speak, even words that wound, is essential for democracy’s survival

Sep 16

Chapter 5.9 | The Moral Mirage: How the Political Duopoly Weaponizes Our Innate Sense of Righteousness

The Engineered Divide: How Our Political System Profiteers from Moral Warfare

Sep 9 • 

Andy Sturner

August 2025

Ch 5.8 | The Free Market Myth Meets Trump’s Intel Deal

Why both parties cry “socialism” only when it helps the other side.

Aug 29 • 

Andy Sturner

Chapter 5.7: Immigration in the Age of Trump 2.0 — Theater, Threats, and the Policy Vacuum

The Immigration Saga Continues: Trump's DOJ Targets Sanctuary States Amid a Calmer Border

Aug 28 • 

Andy Sturner

July 2025

Reader Response to Chapter 5.6

A Subscriber's Opinion

Jul 22

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Chapter 5.6 | The Price of Partisanship: The Collapse of Principled Consistency

Why Partisanship Is America’s Greatest Vulnerability

Jul 16 • 

Andy Sturner

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May 2025

Chapter 5.5 | Trump and the Battle for Jewish Unity

How Fear of Authoritarianism on the Left, and Fear of Progressivism on the Right Are Fracturing Jewish Unity in the US when we need it most

May 27 • 

Andy Sturner

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Chapter 5.4 | Lawfare, Authoritarianism and the consequences of division

What Trump’s executive orders against law firms reveal about him, about us—and about the unraveling of institutional trust on both sides

May 8 • 

Andy Sturner

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April 2025

Chapter 5.3 | Harvard’s Stand for “Independence” Is a Betrayal of Jewish Students — And Trump’s Response Risks Undermining It

Harvard’s Double Standard: Autonomy or Abdication?

Apr 16 • 

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Chapter 5.2 | A Second Constitutional Convention?

Ray Dalio recently published his latest blog post in his ongoing series on the New World Order entitled “Don't Make the Mistake of Thinking That What's…

Apr 8 • 

Andy Sturner

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November 2024

Ch 5.1 | Where do we go from here?

What should be next in the aftermath of the greatest political comeback victory in history

Nov 13, 2024 • 

Andy Sturner

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August 2024

Ch 3.11 | Everyone votes with their wallet.

Let me start by saying that I’m a capitalist whose study of economics was forged in business school in the early 1980s, grounded in Milton Friedman’s…

Aug 8, 2024 • 

Andrew Sturner