#11: Authoritarian Governments Must Lie, and Democracies are Grown-Up Systems

Authoritarian regimes rely on deception to maintain control. Democracies, by contrast, embrace transparency and self-correction. The post defends democratic messiness as a sign of maturity, arguing that truth and accountability are essential to legitimacy.

#10: Corona, or, Nothing Important Is Happening Today

A meditation on the surreal stillness of lockdown. The post captures the emotional dissonance of global crisis unfolding in quiet domestic spaces. Beneath the silence, history is shifting. The absence of spectacle does not mean the absence of significance.