The True Authority The Pulse of Civilization

We do not cover the day-to-day; we document the pulse of civilization.

Leadership and Major Decisions

The actors, corporations, and structures that exert direct influence over the course of civilization.

Leadership

The Machine That Never Stopped

More than half of all the electricity generated on Earth is consumed by a device patented in 1888. What that invention actually did to the economy, why it took forty years to show up in the figures, and why the same argument is being had again right now about something else.

Leadership

From My Brain to You: The Capitalist System and How to Tame It

Three companies take 62 per cent of the digital advertising spent on Earth. Three men hold majority voting control of two of them with a fraction of the shares. And the door out of the crowd is open to anyone, which is a fact, and almost nobody gets through it, which is also a fact.