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Twins of Power: Nixon, Trump, and the American Shadow
They could have shared a whiskey in a dim room—two brooding men of power, both watching the door, both convinced someone was listening....
Kelly Watt
Apr 173 min read


The High Priest of Techno-Optimism
At the height of his ascent, Elon Musk stood as the high priest of techno-optimism—the world's richest man, architect of a car faster...
Kelly Watt
Apr 174 min read


When the Clown is Chosen
He speaks and the room shifts. Not because he says something true, but because the air around him bends to accommodate his belief. I have...
Kelly Watt
Apr 144 min read


The Bird and the Ark
They said it wasn’t my fault. But their eyes didn’t match their mouths. They moved fast, but not toward me. They whispered care, but...
Kelly Watt
Apr 142 min read


The Improvable Victim
They want me radiant with forgiveness. Washed in the pale bath of perspective. They want me measured, tempered— an elegant witness to my...
Kelly Watt
Apr 142 min read


Soft Misogyny and Man Heroes
In today’s cultural landscape, overt misogyny is easy to spot. We know what it looks like: hostile rhetoric, online harassment, gendered...
Kelly Watt
Apr 137 min read


The Grifter and his Mandate
Throughout American history, certain figures rise not merely as participants in the nation’s democratic experiment but as reflections of...
Kelly Watt
Apr 134 min read


The Soft Power of High End Luxury and the Death to Branding
When the Trump administration launched the first salvo in its trade war with China in 2018, few could have foreseen how the world’s...
Kelly Watt
Apr 136 min read


Solanas, Satire, and the Machinery of Male Entitlement
"To call a man an animal is to flatter him; he's a machine, a walking dildo." Valerie Solanas, SCUM Manifesto For decades, this line...
Kelly Watt
Apr 137 min read


Tariffs, Trust, and the Gamble of Governance
In the pantheon of modern American economic policy, few eras have been as chaotic and opaque as that shaped by Donald J. Trump’s...
Kelly Watt
Apr 135 min read


Dark Horse. Trojan Horse. Or just a useful Donkey.
Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying have emerged as emblematic figures of the heterodox intellectual sphere, leveraging their academic...
Kelly Watt
Apr 127 min read


Joe Rogan and the Age of Inverted Myth
For years, Joe Rogan has positioned himself as the archetypal curious man, seeking truth at the edges of accepted thought. This...
Kelly Watt
Apr 127 min read


The Writer of SCUM. Feminism's Embarressment
It is a story. It’s a gothic, blood-stained parable stitched together with cigarette ash and brilliance. In another century, another...
Kelly Watt
Apr 115 min read


Misandry. Misogyny. Medusa's Gaze.
There is a narrative so cleanly reversed it could only have been engineered by those who already held the pen. It whispers in bold...
Kelly Watt
Apr 117 min read


The Majority Rabble over the Falls in a Barrel
There are moments when a nation, like a body, develops chronic wounds. The skin breaks, the tissue festers, and rather than clean it out,...
Kelly Watt
Apr 116 min read


Bold Vision Brittle Execution
In 2019, a report by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Princeton University, and Columbia University estimated that the average...
Kelly Watt
Apr 115 min read


The Correction Presidency. A disaster by Design
On January 20, the markets stood near historic highs. The S&P 500, buoyed by years of artificial stability and optimistic momentum, was...
Kelly Watt
Apr 106 min read


Like Fungus through Stone
He came from a world of glass and brass, of mirrored surfaces and exaggerated reflections. The child of an outer borough builder who...
Kelly Watt
Apr 104 min read


How a 1987 Bestseller Became a 2025 Tariff Doctrine
Trump’s Tariff Playbook Was Written in 1987 There are moments in history when a book written decades earlier unexpectedly reenters the...
Kelly Watt
Apr 106 min read


Ghosts We Summon: The Repeating Ritual of Blame
In the quiet depth of night, when reason sleeps and shadows stretch across rooms and minds alike, a curious pattern surfaces. It moves...
Kelly Watt
Apr 104 min read
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