Two books.
One recurring
pattern.
The machinery that produces catastrophic leaders is entirely human. In several cases, variations of it are running somewhere right now.
Analytical Non-Fiction
How We Got Here
The Formation of a Population Built Not to Know
Fifty years of deliberate institutional architecture produced a population psychologically primed for authoritarian formation. The dataset shows what it built.
Forthcoming
Assholes in History
A Comprehensive Survey of Catastrophic Leadership
Twenty-four of history's most spectacularly awful rulers — not as monsters, but as products. The impulse is universal. The outcome is not.
The Organizational Coercion Index
A systematic, evidence-based index measuring coercive control across hundreds of American organizations — the empirical backbone of How We Got Here. Applies Daniella Mestyanek Young and Amy Reed's framework from The Culting of America systematically, openly documented, and freely available on its own site.
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