Trust Decay

Institutional erosion increasing market uncertainty, raising risk premiums and volatility in equity and fixed-income portfolios. See also: Fragmentation.

"Suicidal Empathy": When Compassion Becomes a Strategic Vulnerability

Dec 25, 2025

An argued shift from empathy as virtue to empathy as weakness and a warning about moral risk in societies and institutions.

AI 2030: Why Democracies Must Own the Governance Layer: Not Just the Models

Dec 24, 2025

MIT Technology Review and Financial Times forecast that AI will reshape economies, politics and civic trust: but only robust governance can preserve stability.

EU DisinfoLab: Civil Society as Strategic Infrastructure in the Info War

Dec 22, 2025

Democracies are rising to treat disinformation as structural risk and are building civil‐society infrastructure to fight it.

Curiosity Is Now a Duty: The Ethical Shift in a Machine-Mediated World

Dec 11, 2025

In the post-human transition, survival isn't about superiority but differentiation.

North Korea's Remote Workforce: Sanctions Evasion as a Service

Dec 2, 2025

Laptop farms and identity fraud fuel Pyongyang’s digital infiltration economy.

The Philosopher-Builder Doctrine: Code Must Be Anchored in Moral Clarity

Dec 1, 2025

AI’s future depends not just on scale or safety, but on the moral compass of its creators.

Russia’s Policing Collapse: Domestic Control Becomes Strategic Liability

Nov 27, 2025

Putin’s overstretched regime now faces internal erosion, not just external resistance.

Legitimacy Under Strain: The Officer Corps and Post-Liberal America

Nov 17, 2025

Loyalty, not legality, becomes the organising principle when civic trust erodes.

Algorithmic Frontiers: Sovereignty and Social Cohesion in the AI Age

Nov 14, 2025

Borders are no longer just fences and flags: they are data layers, codebases, and cognitive infrastructures.