New Series Incoming: As One Story Winds Down, Another Picks Up Steam
Over the past few weeks, Exploring Division has been about one thing: understanding the deep political rifts tearing through the U.S.—how we got here, what’s fueling the fire, and whether anything can truly bring us back from the brink.
That work’s not done yet.
There are still threads to follow, voices to include, and chapters to finish.
But as that series begins to wind down—and before it fully catches up to the latest headlines—I’m launching something new.
Something narrower in scope, but deeply tied to the moment we’re in right now.
It’s called: Pax Americana.
Why Now?
Because while the culture war rages and the political noise grows louder, something quieter—but no less important—is happening under the surface:
The old economic world order is breaking.
And not slowly.
Trump’s new tariffs, emergency economic powers, and foreign policy pivots are accelerating a shift that’s been coming for years.
We’re watching in real time as the trade system that held Pax Americana together—the alliances, the rules, the expectations—starts to fracture.
If Exploring Division is about understanding the cracks in the foundation of our democracy, Pax Americana is about tracing the cracks in the global economy we built—and asking who gets caught when it all starts to fall.
What to Expect
Pax Americana is a tightly structured, 3-week daily series.
It covers:
How the U.S. built the post-WWII global order through military, economic, and cultural dominance
How trade became the backbone of American power—and the quiet engine of global stability
And how automation, globalization, and bad policy created the economic dislocation driving so much of our current political rage
It ends with a hard question:
If the world we built is ending—what are we fighting to save?
Why This Series Matters
Because it’s not just about tariffs or factories or GDP.
It’s about:
Trust in institutions
Our fractured national identity
And the question behind every campaign speech and protest chant:
“Who is the economy really for?”
Read Along, Share, Question Everything
Pax Americana starts today.
Each post will be short, sharp, and focused.
You can follow daily, catch up weekly, or come back at the end and binge the whole arc.
But I hope you’ll read it—and I hope you’ll wrestle with it.
Because the world we’re stepping into wasn’t inevitable.
And the world we build next?
That part’s still up to us.