Arguments about what is being done to you, and by whom
Eight books on the forces working against ordinary people: private equity taking apart good businesses, thinking outsourced until it’s gone, a country talked about only in contempt, and the screens consuming the time you claim not to have.
They’re arguments instead of guides, and they’re not neutral. Two of them, on what AI gives and what it costs, are written as companion volumes and should be read together.
The books
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The Enshittification of America
How Good Businesses Were Taken Apart
How private equity transformed American commerce from serving customers to extracting value. Thirteen industries documented. The playbook never changes.
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The Death of Thinking
What Outsourcing Judgment Costs
What happens when you consistently outsource your thinking to AI? Documents that pattern, its causes, costs, and what gets lost before you notice.
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The Birth of the Augmented Human
What Goes Right When You Use AI Properly
The Death of Thinking mapped the problem. This book maps the other path, the practices that maintain cognitive capacity and what they build over time.
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Everybody’s Prejudiced
Including the Man Who Wrote This
Most people think prejudice is something other people have. This book takes that apart.
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The Emasculation of America
What Bezmenov Described and Nobody Acted On
A national security argument. Documents the sixty-year Soviet operation to target American masculinity and degrade national capacity. Not a culture war book.
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The Villainization of America
Why the Story We Tell Ourselves Matters
America’s failures are real. This documents the operation that uses them to build a permanent indictment, who built it, who funds it, what it costs.
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Stuck in the Middle
Wars, Weapons, and the Next Thirty Years
Connects cognitive decline, civic collapse, military overreach, and geopolitical competition into one structural argument about the next thirty years.
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