From Our Generation is all about making sense of history, economics, and politics through real conversations. We dive into the ideas and events that shaped the world, how they still affect us today, and what they mean for the future. No lectures, just honest discussions about where we’ve been, where we are, and where we’re going.
From Our Generation
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From Our Generation is all about making sense of history, economics, and politics through real conversations. We dive into the ideas and events that shaped the world, how they still affect us today, and what they mean for the future. No lectures, just honest discussions about where we’ve been, where we are, and where we’re going.
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June 25, 2026
BUREAUCRACIES
<p>Bureaucracies don't die quietly. When Reagan tried to eliminate the EPA, radon suddenly became a national crisis: odorless, tasteless, colorless, and conveniently undetectable without government-approved machines. Cities sitting on limestone, the supposed source, showed no elevated cancer rates. The threat evaporated under scrutiny, but the agency grew. The pattern repeats wherever an institution's survival depends on the problems it claims to solve.</p><p>UFO disclosures follow a similar logic. The moment government started talking about unidentified aerial phenomena, the credibility dropped. Released footage is either easily debunked or so ambiguous it proves nothing. Tim Burchett vouches for a 4K video of a 300-foot object moving at extreme speed underwater without displacing water. If real, it implies technology so far beyond current capability that speculation about origins is meaningless. What it does not imply is an existential threat or a reason to change a single vote in 2026.</p><p>The midterm picture is sharpening. In Texas, the Democrat primary produced the furthest-left Senate nominee the state has seen. In Louisiana, the incumbent Republican came in third after voting to convict Trump post-January 6th. In the Texas Republican runoff, John Cornyn was overwhelmed by a challenger running to his right. The Democrat party was supposed to moderate after 2024. Instead, activists have taken the wheel and are nominating candidates further from the center than before.</p><p>Gas prices will determine more than any candidate. Below $3 by September, Republicans hold or gain ground. Above $4, Democrats benefit. Energy costs cascade through everything: diesel moves goods, fossil fuels set utility rates, and inflation tracks fuel prices more closely than any other variable.</p><p>Consumer debt is flashing warnings. Credit card delinquencies at 90 days are approaching 2010 levels. Student loan delinquencies have exploded now that Biden-era repayment pauses ended. Auto loan defaults have surpassed the Great Recession benchmark. Mortgage delinquencies remain low, the one firewall preventing a broader crisis. Consumer spending over the next 12 to 18 months is unlikely to be strong.</p><p>The offset may be capital investment. The big beautiful bill's incentives for building and equipping U.S. factories within 36 months are accelerating land acquisition, permitting, and capital goods orders. Robotics and AI spending is surging. If those factories come online through 2027 and 2028, they will be the most modern manufacturing facilities in the world.</p><p>Blue states are accelerating in the opposite direction. New York's budget is $268 billion, more than double Florida's, despite having 3.5 million fewer people. Pension sweeteners for teachers alone cost $557 million annually. Hawaii's new "millionaire's tax" hits incomes above $500,000, pushing combined rates past 50%. New York City's new mayor is pursuing property seizures from landlords under conditions that almost certainly violate constitutional protections. Vancouver tried a similar tax on out-of-town owners and within a short period, 60% of targeted properties changed hands to local straw buyers. The revenue never materialized.</p><p>The question of whether Americans should face draft risk during wartime is really about skin in the game. The same families have fought every war since Vietnam. Politicians who would never send their own children to serve vote for conflicts without hesitation. A draft wouldn't change troop levels today, but it would change how carefully the country thinks before committing to the next war.</p><p>For more episodes and resources, visit <a href="https://fromourgeneration.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">fromourgeneration.com</a>.</p><p>Dive deeper with Giants of Political Thought at <a href="https://giantsofpoliticalthought.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">giantsofpoliticalthought.com</a>.</p>
June 9, 2026
Rights Before Government
<p>The Declaration of Independence, not the Constitution, is the founding document that defines what America is. Clarence Thomas made this distinction in a recent speech at the University of Texas, and the argument holds. George Washington said he fought for sovereignty, not for a governing structure he couldn't yet imagine. The Constitution came later as the operating manual. The Declaration established the premise: rights come from nature, not from government, and no authority can justly strip them away.</p><p>The Articles of Confederation failed for two reasons. States coined their own money, creating inflationary spirals that destabilized commerce. States imposed tariffs on each other, strangling trade between neighbors. The Constitutional Convention convened with exactly one point of consensus: what existed could not stand. Everything else was negotiated, including the fatal compromise on slavery that guaranteed a civil war within a century.</p><p>The Constitution's design was built around limiting federal power. Congress could coin money and regulate interstate and international trade. Everything else belonged to the states. For 150 years, non-defense federal spending was negligible. Calvin Coolidge reported in 1923 that total federal spending was $2.3 billion, two-thirds of it defense. The federal government has since grown roughly 7,000 times that size. Where there is a giant pot of money, there will always be people who want access to it without creating anything of value to earn it.</p><p>The Supreme Court's recent rulings on redistricting are reshaping the political map. States can gerrymander for political advantage but can no longer draw districts by race. Southern states previously required to create majority-black districts are now dispersing those populations across multiple seats. Democrats call this disenfranchisement. But New England has been gerrymandering for political advantage for decades: 40% of voters in those states vote Republican, yet 100% of House seats are held by Democrats. The principle is either universal or it isn't.</p><p>The claim that only black representatives can serve black constituents doesn't survive scrutiny. Burgess Owens, Wesley Hunt, Byron Donalds, and Tim Scott all won in predominantly white districts. Tim Scott wins 70% of the white vote in South Carolina. The question worth asking is whether black communities represented by black Democrats have measurably benefited from that representation in income, education, or opportunity.</p><p>Capital only exists because property rights are protected. Before the Industrial Revolution, living standards barely moved for 750 years. Between 1760 and 1850, they tripled. Karl Marx could only argue against capitalism once capitalism existed to argue against. The system that created it was built on the same premise as the Declaration: people have a right to the fruits of their own labor. The United States has 11 companies worth over a trillion dollars. No other country has one. That wealth is dispersed across tens of millions of 401(k)s, pension plans, and retirement accounts. The billionaire is the visible target. The millions of ordinary investors who benefit from the same system are invisible.</p><p>Every attempt to cap wealth or halt innovation follows the same logic as banning the internal combustion engine to protect the horse industry. AI will displace some jobs. Every major invention has. Every one of them created far more than it destroyed.</p><p>For more episodes and resources, visit <a href="fromourgeneration.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">fromourgeneration.com</a>.</p><p>Dive deeper with Giants of Political Thought at <a href="giantsofpoliticalthought.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">giantsofpoliticalthought.com</a>.</p>
June 1, 2026
When Institutions Fail
<p>Trust in institutions is at an all-time low, and the question is whether that's a crisis or a correction. Government, media, Congress: the erosion is measurable. But the people who say they distrust Congress keep reelecting their own representatives. The people who distrust the media keep watching outlets that confirm what they already believe. Distrust without action is just atmosphere.</p><p>Media accountability is heading to a breaking point. The Sullivan decision gave press organizations broad protection to say nearly anything about public figures. That protection has been leveraged into a business model where false statements generate clicks without consequence. ABC settled with Trump after George Stephanopoulos repeatedly and falsely claimed Trump had been convicted of rape. Alan Dershowitz is refusing to settle his case against CNN, pushing the Supreme Court to narrow Sullivan and raise the cost of publishing known falsehoods. If the Court moves the bar, the economics of partisan media change overnight.</p><p>A generational fault line runs underneath all of it. The internet stripped the distance between public image and private reality. Bill Cosby, OJ Simpson, Michael Jackson: every hero of a certain era fell publicly and permanently. A generation raised watching that doesn't default to trust. It defaults to skepticism, which is healthy until it curdles into paralysis.</p><p>Government inefficiency is not a matter of opinion. It is a structural outcome of incentive design. A private business that fails its customers goes under. A government agency that fails to deliver claims it needs a larger budget. The question is never whether government or markets are "better" in the abstract. The question is which failure mode you are dealing with: the kind that self-corrects through competition, or the kind that compounds because no one with authority has a reason to stop it.</p><p>Operation Chokepoint proved how far executive power can reach without passing a single law. The Obama DOJ pressured banks into dropping legal businesses it disapproved of: gun stores, payday lenders, coin dealers, tobacco shops. No legislation, no trial, just regulatory leverage applied until legal enterprises lost access to the financial system. Trump ended the program in 2017, but the playbook survived. Canadian trucker de-banking and crypto founder account closures trace directly back to the same template.</p><p>COVID censorship followed the same logic. The Biden administration told social media platforms to suppress opposing viewpoints on public health policy. Those viewpoints turned out to be legitimate. Mark Zuckerberg confirmed that Facebook blocked content at the government's direction. The speech was legal. The opinions were, in many cases, correct. The officials who ordered the suppression have faced no accountability.</p><p>Accountability is the thread connecting every one of these issues. When government officials who abuse power face no personal cost, the abuse becomes a template. When media organizations that publish falsehoods face no financial consequence, the falsehoods become strategy. The system doesn't fix itself. It requires people willing to enforce the rules it was built on.</p><p>For more episodes and resources, visit <a href="fromourgeneration.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">fromourgeneration.com</a>.</p><p>Dive deeper with Giants of Political Thought at <a href="giantsofpoliticalthought.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">giantsofpoliticalthought.com</a>.</p>
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