Imagining a Future with 'Social Learning'

When the administrative state collapses, and the rubble bounces, how will we know what to do and how to build the world that is to come?

Christopher Chantrill | November 2, 2026

I am shocked, shocked that far-right insurrectionists are attacking IC-adjacent Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) -- last seen in Poland -- for proposing to weaponize law enforcement against young conservatives. Democrats have never done such things, and it is a conspiracy theory to suggest that it started with FDR going after Andrew Mellon. Do not believe Google AI!

President Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) launched an aggressive political and legal attack on former Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon during the 1930s, using the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to pursue tax evasion and fraud charges against the wealthy industrialist and financier.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) launched an aggressive political and legal attack on former Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon during the 1930s, using the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to pursue tax evasion and fraud charges against the wealthy industrialist and financier.

Months after Mellon died in 1937, the Board of Tax Appeals “handed down a ruling exonerating Mellon of all tax fraud charges.”

I guess Slotkin is giving us a “tell” that the Deep State is panicking. When rulers are losing: that’s when they ramp up the lawfare.

But you and I are above all that. Let us think instead of larger, deeper things, so that when the administrative state collapses,........

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