Month: August 2026

The End of Industrial Society

The question of Professor Budil’s distinction between productive and speculative capitalism—or, alternatively, between latent and manifest capitalism—comes up from time to time, particularly regarding how I see the matter and…

The End of Sovereignty

“Parallel Islamic courts are, by their very nature, intolerable in any reasonably well-governed state, because the state, by definition, must hold a monopoly over lawmaking and the administration of justice,”…