Cultures, power, and moral responsibility in the modern world.

This site curates writing, art analysis, and audio exploring how the Early Modern world reshaped belief, business, and identity - plus the ways Machiavelli and the American founders still inform leadership and individual duty today.

Colonialism to industrialization Power, virtue, and fear Religion, rights, and responsibility

Industrial revolution environment concept art.

The portfolio follows the shift from faith to evidence, and from local to global systems.

Essay + rotating galleries

Podcast with transcript + mini player

Curated art collection

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Essay

Early Modern World

Colonial routes, Enlightenment fractures, and the innovations that sped the planet toward industrialization.

Application

Machiavelli

Realpolitik lessons on fear, generosity, and the appearance of virtue - tested against lived experience on the court and in leadership.

Application

Individual Rights & Responsibility

Washington and Adams on virtue, faith, and why self-governance collapses without personal morality - echoed in everyday choices.

Podcast

Three Students, One Professor

A 20th-century roundtable with audio player, transcript, and a floating mini control bar for listening anywhere on the page.

Collection

Curated Works

An atlas of Hopper interiors, Neoclassical icons, and archival prints that echo solitude, civic duty, and modernity.

Featured works

Art that anchors the writing, from Neoclassicism to industrial imagination.

Oath of the Horatii by Jacques-Louis David. — Oath of the Horatii - civic duty over comfort.

Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David. — The Death of Marat - sacrifice framed as service.

Nighthawks by Edward Hopper. — Nighthawks - modern isolation lit by neon.

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