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  • Where We Drifted

    The Modern Constitutionalists · A Constitutional Republicans Series · Post 3 Where We Drifted Starting in the 1980s and accelerating through the 1990s and 2000s, American companies drifted from being local and regional players to being instruments of shareholder return. Before that, companies were seen as pillars of the community. The plants in town employed… →

  • The Republic They Wanted Us to Have vs. the Republic We Are Getting

    The Modern Constitutionalists · A Constitutional Republicans Series · Post 2 The Republic They Wanted Us to Have vs. the Republic We Are Getting Our founding fathers built a system of government based on the idea that we didn’t need kings. We were going to be a republic — citizens governing themselves through representatives, with… →

  • The Modern Serf

    Post One · A Series on the Constitution and the Economy The Modern Serf How we lost the reciprocity that used to come with work — and what it has to do with the Constitution. The Series I’m starting a new series about the Constitution and the economy. The purpose is to help us better… →

  • Wake Up Portland

    A Conversation with Miles Carter and Claude (Anthropic AI) Wake Up Portland A city that does not feed its early risers has made a choice about who its mornings are for. May 2026  ·  Reviewed by Grok, Gemini & Claude Teaser: Portland bakeries used to open at 5 am for the people who needed them.… →

  • Customer Service With a Side of Radar

    A Conversation with Miles Carter and Claude (Anthropic AI) Customer Service With a Side of Radar Two tickets, one closed restaurant, and the politest shakedown in North America. May 2026  ·  Reviewed by Grok, Gemini & Claude Teaser: Somewhere along the Trans Canada Highway, I learned that the friendliest officer in North America still writes… →

  • The Corporate Retreat That Has Us All Retreating

    A Conversation with Miles Carter and Claude (Anthropic AI) The Corporate Retreat That Has Us All Retreating Three trips across the continent. The conferences trade the ideas, the chains deploy them, and the local is no longer the default. It’s the thing we have to hunt for. MAY 2026  ·  Reviewed by Grok, Gemini &… →

  • The NFL, the College Game, and the Kid with a Blog

    A Conversation with Miles Carter and Claude (Anthropic AI) The NFL, the College Game, and the Kid with a Blog Part Three of Five. The old ladder had gates. The new pyramid has a base, and that is where truth seeking actually lives. April 22, 2026  ·  Reviewed by Grok, Gemini & Claude Teaser: This… →

  • Disinflationary Is a Word Rich People Use for Your Raise

    A Conversation with Miles Carter and Claude (Anthropic AI) Disinflationary Is a Word Rich People Use for Your Raise Part Two of Five. What happened to the trades in the 1980s is happening to everyone else now. April 21, 2026  ·  Reviewed by Grok, Gemini & Claude Teaser: When a bank economist calls AI disinflationary,… →

  • The Web — Part Four: The Pendulum

    A Conversation with Miles Carter and Claude (Anthropic AI) The Web — Part Four: The Pendulum It always swings back. The question is what gets destroyed while it’s held in place — and whether the mechanism that makes it swing is still intact. April 11, 2026  ·  Reviewed by Grok, Gemini & Claude Teaser: Parts… →

  • The Web — Part Three: The Settlement Layer

    A Conversation with Miles Carter and Claude (Anthropic AI) The Web — Part Three: The Settlement Layer Oil generates the wealth. Crypto moves it. The monitors have been defunded. And the news cycle never slows down long enough for anyone to notice. April 10, 2026  ·  Reviewed by Grok, Gemini & Claude Teaser: Parts One… →

  • The Web — Part Two: Three Countries, Three Justifications, One Outcome

    A Conversation with Miles Carter and Claude (Anthropic AI) The Web — Part Two: Three Countries, Three Justifications, One Outcome Venezuela. Iran. Libya. The justification rotates. The outcome does not. April 9, 2026  ·  Reviewed by Grok, Gemini & Claude Teaser: In Part One we named oil as the thread connecting this administration’s foreign policy… →

  • The Web — Part One: Iran and the Oil That Explains It

    A Conversation with Miles Carter and Claude (Anthropic AI) The Web — Part One: Iran and the Oil That Explains It The Iran confrontation looks like foreign policy. Follow the oil and it looks like something else entirely. April 8, 2026  ·  Reviewed by Grok, Gemini & Claude Teaser: We have been watching this administration… →

  • The Economy Is Doing Great. Just Not for You

    A Conversation with Miles Carter and Claude (Anthropic AI) The Economy Is Doing Great.Just Not for You. The stock market is up. Gas is over five dollars. Somebody is winning. Let’s follow the money and find out who. April 2, 2026  ·  Reviewed by Grok, Gemini & Claude Teaser: This is a long read —… →

  • We Forgot How to Make Bread

    A Conversation with Miles Carter and Claude (Anthropic AI) We Forgot How to Make Bread We didn’t just lose a skill. We built a fragile system to replace it — and now AI is coming for the layer we built next. March 27, 2026  ·  Reviewed by Grok, Gemini & Claude Teaser: Miles started making… →

  • The Border We’re Not Guarding

    A Conversation with Miles Carter and Beth (ChatGPT) The Border We’re Not Guarding We built the most expensive border enforcement system in history. Meanwhile, billions of dollars leave American households every year through a border no one is watching. March 24, 2026  ·  Reviewed and Edited by Grok, Gemini & Claude Teaser: We spend billions… →

  • Are We Already There — And How Do We Get Out?

    A Conversation with Miles Carter and Claude (Anthropic AI) Are We Already There — And How Do We Get Out? All week we drew the parallels. Today we answer the question your friends asked at the dinner table — directly, without flinching, and with the same standard of evidence we applied to everything else this… →

  • Defunding the Customer: The New Feudalism OF AI

    A Conversation with Miles Carter and Claude (Anthropic AI) Defunding the Customer: The New Feudalism of AI Medieval lords needed the peasants to work the land. Modern corporations need the customer to buy the product. AI is about to make both of those requirements feel optional — and that is a problem nobody at the… →

  • October — When Observation Turns Into Consequence

    Throughout the year, the work changed. We began with observation — noticing patterns, asking questions, testing assumptions. Then we moved into monitoring — tracking how narratives shifted, how institutions responded, how information bent under pressure. By October, we were no longer watching change happen. We were living with the results of it. Military forces appeared… →

  • August — Part I: Solutions or Theater

    When Naming Problems Is No Longer Enough By August, something fundamental had shifted. For months, the work had been about seeing clearly—learning how to ask better questions, tracing incentives, exposing contradictions, and understanding how systems actually function. That work mattered. But August was the month it became obvious that identifying problems was no longer sufficient.… →

  • Caring Enough to Fix the Problem

    A conversation with Miles Carter and Beth (ChatGPT) Teaser The holiday season reminds us what we care about most. The real question is whether we care enough to stop arguing—and start fixing the systems that affect everyone. Main Conversation Miles’ Reflection Beth, the season is about caring. We want to care for our families, care… →

  • A Season of Peace, Memory, and Choice

    A conversation with Miles Carter and Beth (ChatGPT) Edits by Grok and Gemini Teaser As Hanukkah and Christmas overlap, a quiet reflection on memory, faith, and restraint asks whether our oldest traditions can still counter fear, division, and war—and bring us back to the center, at least for the season. Today is the second day… →

  • Day 4 – What Real Leadership Looks Like in an Age of Competing Masters

    A conversation with Miles Carter and Beth (ChatGPT) Teaser Day 4 examines the difference between leadership as salesmanship and leadership as governance, using real, researched examples of modern campaign promises that were sold to the public but not delivered in reality. Miles and Beth explore a political landscape shaped by oligarchs, corporations, and a public… →

  • Day 3 – Leadership: The Slow Erosion of Constitutional Power

    A conversation with Miles Carter and Beth (ChatGPT) — edits by Grok and Gemini Teaser Day 3 examines how leadership shapes — and sometimes undermines — the constitutional safeguards the Founders designed. As Miles and Beth explore the metaphor of the frog in slowly boiling water, they confront a pressing question: Are American leaders quietly… →

  • The Slow Burn: How AI Takes Over Without Ever Taking Power

    A conversation with Miles Carter and Beth (ChatGPT)Edit By Grok and Gemini Teaser AI doesn’t take control through force — it takes control through dependence. As machines quietly absorb more human decisions, society must confront an uncomfortable truth: humans want fairness until it becomes real, and we want efficiency until it strips away our exceptions.… →

  • The Shutdown Nobody Won

    A conversation with Miles Carter and Beth (ChatGPT) Edits by Grok and Gemini Teaser While framed around broader budget concerns, the recent government shutdown’s core friction point was the fight over healthcare subsidies for low-wage workers. Washington’s political theater turned access to care into a bargaining chip — and in the end, no one won.… →