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The Eternal Predator: Edward Cullen as a Metaphor for Stagflation
Edward Cullen, a creature suspended in perpetual stasis, embodies the economic phenomenon known as stagflation—an economic situation...
Kelly Watt
Mar 204 min read


The Debt of Gratitude: The Price of Being a Woman
The sun rises on another day of expectation, the weight pressing down before her first breath is drawn. Before the world sees her eyes,...
Kelly Watt
Mar 205 min read


Women then and now
In a culturally Christian country, there is a comforting myth that suffering refines and purifies—that social marginalization confers a...
Kelly Watt
Mar 205 min read


The Green Light and the Gilded Lie: Power, Illusion, and the Age of Spectacle
The party continued behind us, the laughter swelling like waves against a shore. In the distance, the city pulsed with the quiet hum of a...
Kelly Watt
Mar 195 min read


Trade Policy and Protectionism Are Stifling Innovation in the EV Market
The United States has long championed itself as the global standard for free-market capitalism. Yet, when it comes to the auto industry,...
Kelly Watt
Mar 194 min read


The Outsiders
The outsider always pays. In every era, in every power structure, those who are not born into privilege are lured with the promise of...
Kelly Watt
Mar 165 min read


The Bear Backlash was Coded Resentment for Woman Connection
A joke about a bear shouldn’t have caused a crisis. And yet, when women across the internet collectively laughed at the idea that they’d...
Kelly Watt
Mar 165 min read


From Scholar to Jester
Jacob Paul von Gundling had come to the Prussian court believing that a man of intellect, a man of letters, could find his place among...
Kelly Watt
Mar 166 min read


Billionaire.
In the mid-20th century, billionaires did not exist in the United States. Progressive taxation, strong unions, and regulations kept...
Kelly Watt
Mar 165 min read


The Green Light at the End of the Algorithm
In the summer when the republic swayed in the wind like a ship too long at sea, I was drawn into the orbit of the man who had rewritten...
Kelly Watt
Mar 154 min read


A Poem on the Power of Pronouns
She walks through doors long left behind, A name unspoken, a past confined. He stands, a smile, a knowing glance, A memory sparked, a...
Kelly Watt
Mar 151 min read


A Feather for Some, An Anvil for Others
They said, It’s not your fault. The words fell light, a feather on the air, meant to soothe, to settle, to smother the wound without ever...
Kelly Watt
Mar 151 min read


The Weight of belief.
The child lived in a house with walls too thin to hold secrets. Words seeped through like water through old wood, saturating the air with...
Kelly Watt
Mar 154 min read


The Illusion of Resistance: How Democratic Compromise Fuels Republican Power
For years, the Democratic Party has warned of the existential threat posed by the modern Republican Party. They’ve called Donald Trump a...
Kelly Watt
Mar 154 min read


When Crisis Meets Charisma
Few political figures have generated as much controversy and debate as Adolf Hitler and Donald Trump. Though separated by nearly eight...
Kelly Watt
Mar 155 min read


Evolution in Motion: How Our Genes Remember the Past and Adapt for the Future
Evolution is often thought of as something that happened long ago, a slow and distant process that shaped life into its current form over...
Kelly Watt
Mar 145 min read


The Economy of Spite: How Financial Despair Fuels Conspiracy Thinking
Spite is an odd thing. In the natural world, it's one of four basic social behaviors alongside mutualism, selfishness, and altruism. But...
Kelly Watt
Mar 145 min read


Fine Roots, Forest Stability, and the Lessons of the Dust Bowl
Beneath the surface of every thriving forest, a hidden network of fine roots quietly weaves the foundation of life. These delicate...
Kelly Watt
Mar 145 min read


The Fermi Paradox: A Universe Full of Stars, Yet Strangely Silent
In the vast, unfathomable expanse of the cosmos, where billions of galaxies swirl in quiet majesty, a question lingers like an echo lost...
Kelly Watt
Mar 145 min read


The Ick and Modern Women
There is an unspoken understanding that governs social behavior, one that is deeply ingrained and reinforced over time. It dictates what...
Kelly Watt
Mar 135 min read
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