[From Isonomia Quarterly 4.1 Spring 2026. Read the full article at Isonomia Quarterly.]
There’s no doubt that the Americas were irrevocably changed by European contact. The decimation and sociopolitical transformation of the Western Hemisphere was so thorough that many scholars speak of an indigenous genocide—the intentional destruction of native societies. But there’s also no doubt that the story is not so simple.
Steve Bannon, who has condemned “Austrian economics, limited government,” also spent many hours chumming it up with Epstein.
There is a lazy argument, often repeated in India’s political and intellectual circles: “Capitalism is only for those who already have capital. That is why it does not work for the poor.” It sounds empathetic and moral, but it is deeply flawed. This argument looks at capitalism at a surface level instead of a systemic level. It confuses entry conditions with survival conditions. Capitalism does not succeed or collapse based on who starts rich or poor. It operates on how individuals behave once they enter the system.
The dynamics at work in modern America are not accidental, nor are they merely the product of bureaucratic incompetence. They reflect the predictable outcomes of institutional incentives embedded within modern political, financial, and corporate structures—outcomes that reliably undermine national sovereignty, dissolve cultural continuity, and neutralize resistance to an unsustainable economic order.
“An Israeli-American regime-change operation is underway in Iran.”
European economists regard Spain’s former central bank governor Pablo Hernández de Cos and his Dutch counterpart Klaas Knot as top picks to become the next ECB president.
Last week I had the pleasure to again appear on Tucker Carlson’s popular broadcast. Although the program appears on several different platforms, on X alone the episode has been seen by more than two and a half million people. That does not include the various clips and shorts that people made and posted themselves. It is incredible how the reach and influence of the independent media has grown over the past decade or so.
