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Institutional Systems Engineering

06
Apr
The Architecture of American War

The Architecture of American War

How a constitutional restraint became a procedural ritual, and how American power keeps force easy to start, hard to stop, and politically survivable for the people who authorize it
5 min read
05
Apr
Lawful and Corrosive

Lawful and Corrosive

Something can be constitutional in form and degrading in effect. The distinction between civilian control and partisan screening is not legal. It is institutional.
5 min read
30
Mar
We Do Not Rise to the Level of Our Ideals. We Fall to the Level of Our Systems

We Do Not Rise to the Level of Our Ideals. We Fall to the Level of Our Systems

Why institutions keep delivering the exact opposite of what they publicly claim to value.
3 min read
16
Mar

The Tate Deplatforming Case Study Institutional Coordination in Platform Governance

A systems analysis using the LSAM framework
8 min read