Historical events analyzed through the stakeholder-constraints framework. All of history is evidence. These analyses show how patterns from the past illuminate how to think about the present.
Japan didn't fail because its leaders were incompetent—they failed because they doubled down on industrial policy while trapped under America's security umbrella. China is making the same bet, but without the same constraints.
Federal enforcement promises, capacity constraints, selective crackdowns, local resistance where economically viable—the cycle repeats because the underlying incentives never change.
Americans already overconsume protein by 20%, yet the food industry built a multi-billion dollar market anyway. History suggests we've seen this script before.
From 1848 to 2026: when new communications tech meets economic anxiety, government reasserts itself. Both left and right populism lead to the same destination.
Rome managed mass non-employment for 600 years. If AI takes the jobs, what can we learn from history's one successful experiment?
How AI and automation resolve what politics never could