Joe Zeigler
Joe, with degrees in engineering and economics, raced motorcycles, founded 3 software companies, and launched one of the first computer store chains. Now he writes novels and Ghost essays while traveling with his wife, Lanying, and their cat, Cat.
We Broke the Covenant
The Mob was Better
Snake Oil Economics
Two Headlines
Civil War
Friend of the Working Man
Really? Summary: Support for Donald Trump is not about policy; it’s a transaction born from 40 years of economic and cultural humiliation by both parties. Trump successfully channeled the resulting rage, selling a narrative where his supporters are forgotten heroes whose anger is righteous. Believing he is their weapon
Fools and Power
Summary for the time-constrained reader They give up power to retain power, it sounds crazy—it is. Our politicians are not just fools. They’re traitors. Trump didn’t take the GOP, the party surrendered. Democrats let Mitch McConnell steal the Court and called it “norms.” Biden promised to fight
Fox Lighted the Match
Fox News and the Industrialization of American Collapse Summary: Fox News didn’t invent collapse—it monetized it. By 1996, the country was primed: racism repackaged as “law and order,” wages flat, towns gutted, trust shattered by Vietnam and Watergate. Reagan’s 1987 repeal of the Fairness Doctrine stripped truth
It Wasn't Me
First it was Colbert, but it wasn’t me. Then it was Kimmel, but it wasn’t me. A joke cut, a contract torn, a stage gone dark. The answer is always the same: a shrug, a technicality, a coincidence. It wasn’t me. It’s never me. Say it
TikTok is on a Pathogenetic Path
Vaccine Hesitancy
How Russia Turned Vaccines into a Weapon Against Democracy For the Time-Constrained Reader Putin didn’t need secret meetings or kompromat. He didn’t need Trump as a puppet or Kennedy as an agent. He needed a lever — something that would split Americans from one another, rewire trust, and make