Evan Matthew Papp
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Union Solidarity Forever
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Slavery grows through addiction and debt, through dispossession when people lose self-determination. Historically, land was the foundation of freedom because it provided subsistence, surplus and right of refusal.
Slavery grows through addiction and debt, through dispossession when people lose self-determination. Historically, land was the foundation of freedom because it provided subsistence, surplus and right of refusal.
December 27, 2025 at 3:14 PM
2026 Horizon Vision
Slavery grows through addiction and debt, through dispossession when people lose self-determination. Historically, land was the foundation of freedom because it provided subsistence, surplus and right of refusal.
Slavery grows through addiction and debt, through dispossession when people lose self-determination. Historically, land was the foundation of freedom because it provided subsistence, surplus and right of refusal.
were designed for catastrophic events but now describe the chronic, everyday vulnerability of the nation.
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The Lifeline Reconstruction Agenda: A National Security and Renewal Strategy
The next successful political movement will not sell slogans but will offer a credible plan to rebuild the country.
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December 2, 2025 at 7:09 PM
were designed for catastrophic events but now describe the chronic, everyday vulnerability of the nation.
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Federal emergency management frameworks, such as FEMA's Community Lifelines, the National Response Framework (NRF) and the National Disaster Recovery Framework (NDRF),
The Lifeline Reconstruction Agenda: A National Security and Renewal Strategy
The next successful political movement will not sell slogans but will offer a credible plan to rebuild the country.
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December 2, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Federal emergency management frameworks, such as FEMA's Community Lifelines, the National Response Framework (NRF) and the National Disaster Recovery Framework (NDRF),
The next successful political movement will not sell slogans but will offer a credible plan to rebuild the country.
The United States faces a national emergency characterized by the systemic failure of its foundational infrastructure.
The United States faces a national emergency characterized by the systemic failure of its foundational infrastructure.
December 2, 2025 at 7:09 PM
The next successful political movement will not sell slogans but will offer a credible plan to rebuild the country.
The United States faces a national emergency characterized by the systemic failure of its foundational infrastructure.
The United States faces a national emergency characterized by the systemic failure of its foundational infrastructure.
The guiding principle should remain simple: water is a public good. A society that leaves water safety to the luck of geography or income undermines its own stability.
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November 27, 2025 at 12:21 AM
The guiding principle should remain simple: water is a public good. A society that leaves water safety to the luck of geography or income undermines its own stability.
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Its success offers a practical model for rebuilding the country’s foundation while avoiding the paralysis that accompanies fragmented policymaking.
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The Spirit of Public Works
The PWA was one of the core New Deal agencies created under President Franklin D. Roosevelt to combat the Great Depression. Established by the National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) of 1933, the PWA ...
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November 26, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Its success offers a practical model for rebuilding the country’s foundation while avoiding the paralysis that accompanies fragmented policymaking.
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Established by the National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) of 1933, the PWA was designed as a massive capital-investment program that fused public credit, engineering discipline and regional planning into a single institution.
The Spirit of Public Works
The PWA was one of the core New Deal agencies created under President Franklin D. Roosevelt to combat the Great Depression. Established by the National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) of 1933, the PWA ...
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November 26, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Established by the National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) of 1933, the PWA was designed as a massive capital-investment program that fused public credit, engineering discipline and regional planning into a single institution.
The PWA was one of the core New Deal agencies created under President Franklin D. Roosevelt to combat the Great Depression.
November 26, 2025 at 12:52 AM
The PWA was one of the core New Deal agencies created under President Franklin D. Roosevelt to combat the Great Depression.
They restored civic life in places where city halls and community centers had shuttered.
If you turn on a water tap, send a letter, cross a bridge or visit a historic downtown, you are likely benefiting from WPA labor from nearly a century ago.
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If you turn on a water tap, send a letter, cross a bridge or visit a historic downtown, you are likely benefiting from WPA labor from nearly a century ago.
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Rebuilding Labor with a New WPA for the 21st Century
The WPA rebuilt a nation that was physically falling apart. Workers paved 650,000 miles of roads, repaired 125,000 public buildings, constructed 8,000 parks and modernized 800 airports. They built sch...
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November 24, 2025 at 5:33 PM
They restored civic life in places where city halls and community centers had shuttered.
If you turn on a water tap, send a letter, cross a bridge or visit a historic downtown, you are likely benefiting from WPA labor from nearly a century ago.
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If you turn on a water tap, send a letter, cross a bridge or visit a historic downtown, you are likely benefiting from WPA labor from nearly a century ago.
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The WPA rebuilt a nation that was physically falling apart. Workers paved 650,000 miles of roads, repaired 125,000 public buildings, constructed 8,000 parks and modernized 800 airports. They built schools, water systems, bridges, levees, courthouses, armories and sewers.
November 24, 2025 at 5:33 PM
The WPA rebuilt a nation that was physically falling apart. Workers paved 650,000 miles of roads, repaired 125,000 public buildings, constructed 8,000 parks and modernized 800 airports. They built schools, water systems, bridges, levees, courthouses, armories and sewers.
And they converge on the same antidote to acedia. We need purpose, zeal, meaning, work that matters and a future worth choosing.
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Fighting Acedia and Demoralization
A Path Back to Purpose.Something is happening in our society. Many people feel a heaviness that is deeper than frustration or discontent. It feels like drifting. One day blends into the next. Activiti...
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November 23, 2025 at 4:50 PM
And they converge on the same antidote to acedia. We need purpose, zeal, meaning, work that matters and a future worth choosing.
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History, strategy, theology and psychology converge on this point—from Sun Tzu to modern U.S. Army doctrine, from Dante’s Purgatorio to Viktor Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning.
Fighting Acedia and Demoralization
A Path Back to Purpose.Something is happening in our society. Many people feel a heaviness that is deeper than frustration or discontent. It feels like drifting. One day blends into the next. Activiti...
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November 23, 2025 at 4:50 PM
History, strategy, theology and psychology converge on this point—from Sun Tzu to modern U.S. Army doctrine, from Dante’s Purgatorio to Viktor Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning.
The ancients named this condition acedia, which is a collapse of purpose, a dimming of the will, a nihilistic loss of meaning, a spiritual exhaustion that masquerades as indifference. We are living through a modern acedia.
Fighting Acedia and Demoralization
A Path Back to Purpose.Something is happening in our society. Many people feel a heaviness that is deeper than frustration or discontent. It feels like drifting. One day blends into the next. Activiti...
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November 23, 2025 at 4:50 PM
The ancients named this condition acedia, which is a collapse of purpose, a dimming of the will, a nihilistic loss of meaning, a spiritual exhaustion that masquerades as indifference. We are living through a modern acedia.
Something is happening in our society. Many people feel a heaviness that is deeper than frustration or discontent. It feels like drifting. One day blends into the next. Activities that once mattered have lost their meaning. It feels like the inability to imagine a compelling future.
November 23, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Something is happening in our society. Many people feel a heaviness that is deeper than frustration or discontent. It feels like drifting. One day blends into the next. Activities that once mattered have lost their meaning. It feels like the inability to imagine a compelling future.
A strong tooling sector is inseparable from a strong industrial labor movement.
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The Full-Set Economy Begins with a Machine Tool Industrial Policy
Decades of financialization and globalization hollowed out the industrial base of the U.S. economy. What good is the stock market mutual fund if you can’t turn on the lights in your house? We are in t...
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November 21, 2025 at 7:46 PM
A strong tooling sector is inseparable from a strong industrial labor movement.
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Union training centers have historically produced the world’s best machinists. Their involvement ensures:
Skilled apprenticeship pathways
High-quality training
Stable career ladders
Safety standards
Wage floors that support middle-class communities
Skilled apprenticeship pathways
High-quality training
Stable career ladders
Safety standards
Wage floors that support middle-class communities
The Full-Set Economy Begins with a Machine Tool Industrial Policy
Decades of financialization and globalization hollowed out the industrial base of the U.S. economy. What good is the stock market mutual fund if you can’t turn on the lights in your house? We are in t...
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November 21, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Union training centers have historically produced the world’s best machinists. Their involvement ensures:
Skilled apprenticeship pathways
High-quality training
Stable career ladders
Safety standards
Wage floors that support middle-class communities
Skilled apprenticeship pathways
High-quality training
Stable career ladders
Safety standards
Wage floors that support middle-class communities
Machine-tool manufacturing depends on high-wage, high-skill labor for tool-and-die workers, machinists, patternmakers, CNC programmers and metrology specialists.
Labor unions, especially the machinist and metal trades are essential partners.
Labor unions, especially the machinist and metal trades are essential partners.
November 21, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Machine-tool manufacturing depends on high-wage, high-skill labor for tool-and-die workers, machinists, patternmakers, CNC programmers and metrology specialists.
Labor unions, especially the machinist and metal trades are essential partners.
Labor unions, especially the machinist and metal trades are essential partners.
The Political Economy Project positions economics as the study of how societies expand their productive powers, their cultural richness and the freedom of their citizens to shape their own future. Renaissance traditions recognize the centrality of human development.
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The Indomitable Human Spirit Fighting Empire That Never Ended
A World Built on Slavery and Opium Always FallsThe modern international system was not built on neutral economic forces. The world we inherit is not a clean break from the past but a continuation of t...
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November 21, 2025 at 12:11 AM
The Political Economy Project positions economics as the study of how societies expand their productive powers, their cultural richness and the freedom of their citizens to shape their own future. Renaissance traditions recognize the centrality of human development.
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Most economic models treat human beings as factors of production or rational optimizers. That approach guarantees small ideas and limited politics and possibilities.
November 21, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Most economic models treat human beings as factors of production or rational optimizers. That approach guarantees small ideas and limited politics and possibilities.
If harmony, order and beauty are the marks of perfection, then a society full of misery and inequality is, by definition, disordered.
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On Wisdom and the Science of Happiness
Based on Leibniz’s ethics, if harmony, order and beauty are the marks of perfection, then a society full of misery and inequality is, by definition, disordered.
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November 19, 2025 at 7:18 PM
If harmony, order and beauty are the marks of perfection, then a society full of misery and inequality is, by definition, disordered.
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t is the direct and foreseeable consequence of a series of destructive policy shifts with the imposition of a post-industrial, financialized economy.
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Machine Tool Mismanagement
Why America Must Rebuild the Sector That Builds Everything Else
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November 13, 2025 at 7:12 PM
t is the direct and foreseeable consequence of a series of destructive policy shifts with the imposition of a post-industrial, financialized economy.
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in its machine-tool sector since the mid-1960s. This decline is seen as the extinguishing of the machine-tool design principle, which, unless reversed, threatens America's future. The current industrial crisis is not the result of inevitable market forces or natural economic laws. I
November 13, 2025 at 7:12 PM
in its machine-tool sector since the mid-1960s. This decline is seen as the extinguishing of the machine-tool design principle, which, unless reversed, threatens America's future. The current industrial crisis is not the result of inevitable market forces or natural economic laws. I
The health of the machine-tool sector is the most accurate barometer of a nation's physical-economic health and its potential for future growth.
The United States, once a leader in machine tool manufacturing, has experienced an accelerating, fundamental, downward trend...
The United States, once a leader in machine tool manufacturing, has experienced an accelerating, fundamental, downward trend...
November 13, 2025 at 7:12 PM
The health of the machine-tool sector is the most accurate barometer of a nation's physical-economic health and its potential for future growth.
The United States, once a leader in machine tool manufacturing, has experienced an accelerating, fundamental, downward trend...
The United States, once a leader in machine tool manufacturing, has experienced an accelerating, fundamental, downward trend...
I left Zambia understanding that electricity is not just a utility but the foundation of freedom and prosperity in the modern world.
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What We Can Learn from the Electrification of Rural America
Nearly twenty years ago, I lived in a rural village in Zambia. The sunset dropped like a curtain because the community lacked electricity. A few candles flickered inside mud-brick houses. At night, wo...
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November 12, 2025 at 7:05 PM
I left Zambia understanding that electricity is not just a utility but the foundation of freedom and prosperity in the modern world.
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Nearly twenty years ago, I lived in a rural village in Zambia.
For the first time in my life, electricity infrastructure was not an abstraction but a line separating modernity and opportunity from one constrained by darkness and poverty.
For the first time in my life, electricity infrastructure was not an abstraction but a line separating modernity and opportunity from one constrained by darkness and poverty.
November 12, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Nearly twenty years ago, I lived in a rural village in Zambia.
For the first time in my life, electricity infrastructure was not an abstraction but a line separating modernity and opportunity from one constrained by darkness and poverty.
For the first time in my life, electricity infrastructure was not an abstraction but a line separating modernity and opportunity from one constrained by darkness and poverty.