A soft coup took place in D.C. last night. While the headlines announce Jerome Powell is stepping down as Chair of the Federal Reserve, the fine print reveals a more insidious reality: his ascension to the role of “Shadow Chair.” By retreating to his bunker, Powell is executing a maneuver that signals the final, total politicization of America’s most powerful institution.

There is a certain subspecies of conservatives in which the members seem impervious to the abundant evidence all around us that the constitution of the “founding fathers” is a dead letter and the American republic created in the late eighteenth century is now a relic of the past.

Biden’s FBI “diligently attempted to use its enforcement authority against parents who defended their children’s safety at local school board meetings.”

In centrally planned economies, administration does not confine itself to markets; it reaches into the most intimate aspects of life. When provisioning is socialized, fertility ceases to be private, and population becomes a variable to forecast and regulate. Reproductive incentives are altered, strategies are reshaped, and the fitness landscape is rewritten by policy constraints rather than natural scarcity.