Policy and Critique

Applies Lifetime Risk-Adjusted Carbon Score analysis to small modular reactors and advanced designs, showing how the risk and cost profile of next-generation nuclear differs from the 1950s cold-war fleet that dominates most public mental models.

An investigation into the ruthless optimization of the Banda Islands and intra-Asian trade.

Places Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, and Fukushima mortality against equivalent coal-generation death rates on a per-TWh basis, producing the comparison that reveals the conventional hierarchy of fear is inverted from the hierarchy of harm.

Examining the legal and military foundations of the VOC’s "just war" and territorial expansion.

Introduces the Lifetime Risk-Adjusted Carbon Score and applies the Hansen-Kharecha finding that nuclear power prevented 1.84 million deaths through displacement of coal generation — a calculation receiving a fraction of the media attention given to any nuclear accident.

Analyzing the structural innovations and financial engineering that launched the VOC in 1602.

Analyzing the welfare economics of defense programs, questioning whether systems like the F-35 serve public interests or concentrated private benefits.

Examining how advanced weapons systems like the F-35 create embedded dependencies that trade strategic flexibility for perceived security, while sovereign alternatives preserve autonomy.

How the collapse of the coffee economy forced the Rwandan regime to substitute incentives with systemic repression.

A critical analysis of how defense procurement decisions reveal deeper theories of state value, sovereignty, and economic welfare through the lens of two contrasting fighter jet programs.