Enemies of You

Arguments about what is being done to you, and by whom

8Books

2,277Pages

113+Books authored

54+Ghostwritten

TL;DR: Enemies of You is eight books on the forces working against ordinary people, from private equity taking apart good businesses to outsourced thinking and the screens eating your time. They’re arguments, not guides, and they aren’t neutral. The Death of Thinking and The Birth of the Augmented Human are companion volumes meant to be read together, and the page ends with articles from the series.

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.

The eight Enemies of You books and their arguments
Book	The argument
The Enshittification of America	Private equity turned commerce from serving customers to extracting value
The Death of Thinking	What is lost when you keep outsourcing judgment to AI
The Birth of the Augmented Human	The practices that keep cognitive capacity when using AI
Everybody’s Prejudiced	Prejudice is not only something other people have
The Emasculation of America	A national security argument built on what Bezmenov described
The Villainization of America	The operation that turns real failures into a permanent indictment
Stuck in the Middle	Cognitive decline, civic collapse and geopolitics as one argument
Turn Off the TV, Get Off Your Ass, and Do Something	Getting your time back from screens, consuming to contributing

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 two companion volumes in Enemies of You: one maps the problem, the other maps the path out.

The books

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.

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.

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.

Everybody’s Prejudiced

Including the Man Who Wrote This

Most people think prejudice is something other people have. This book takes that apart.

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.

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.

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.