Evan Matthew Papp
@evanmatthewpapp.bsky.social
Union Solidarity Forever
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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.
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.
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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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.
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.
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.
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.
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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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...
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.
Finance as Water: An Analogy
To diagnose this paralysis, consider the current financial structure as a massive, intricate water system, an essential infrastructure for distributing vital resources (credit) across the economic landscape.
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To diagnose this paralysis, consider the current financial structure as a massive, intricate water system, an essential infrastructure for distributing vital resources (credit) across the economic landscape.
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November 11, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Finance as Water: An Analogy
To diagnose this paralysis, consider the current financial structure as a massive, intricate water system, an essential infrastructure for distributing vital resources (credit) across the economic landscape.
www.eml.media/post/the-ame...
To diagnose this paralysis, consider the current financial structure as a massive, intricate water system, an essential infrastructure for distributing vital resources (credit) across the economic landscape.
www.eml.media/post/the-ame...
The mission is to rebuild our foundational economic platforms—our water, energy, and transportation systems—and, in doing so, uplift our people through productive employment, advanced education and the creation of tangible wealth.
November 11, 2025 at 1:13 AM
The mission is to rebuild our foundational economic platforms—our water, energy, and transportation systems—and, in doing so, uplift our people through productive employment, advanced education and the creation of tangible wealth.
Battle for the Mind: A Physiology of Conversion and Brain-washing is a 1957 book by controversial British psychiatrist William Sargant, which explores the mechanistic and physiological aspects of changing human behavior and beliefs.
November 9, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Battle for the Mind: A Physiology of Conversion and Brain-washing is a 1957 book by controversial British psychiatrist William Sargant, which explores the mechanistic and physiological aspects of changing human behavior and beliefs.
The secret of great wealth, as described by Frederic C. Howe’s 1906 book Confessions of a Monopolist, is not found in traditional virtues like saving, economy or competitive business skill but rather in a two-part maxim centered on monopoly and political manipulation.
November 6, 2025 at 9:58 PM
The secret of great wealth, as described by Frederic C. Howe’s 1906 book Confessions of a Monopolist, is not found in traditional virtues like saving, economy or competitive business skill but rather in a two-part maxim centered on monopoly and political manipulation.
Will we build a future worthy of free people or slip into the managed decline of debt, speculation and cultural decay? The answer turns not on temporary political moods but on the system of political economy a nation chooses as its operating philosophy.
November 5, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Will we build a future worthy of free people or slip into the managed decline of debt, speculation and cultural decay? The answer turns not on temporary political moods but on the system of political economy a nation chooses as its operating philosophy.
The Plot to Seize the White House: Smedley Butler and the 1934 Wall Street Coup
War is a Racket by Brigadier General Smedley D. Butler should be required reading in every high School social studies in the United States.
War is a Racket by Brigadier General Smedley D. Butler should be required reading in every high School social studies in the United States.
November 5, 2025 at 1:22 AM
The Plot to Seize the White House: Smedley Butler and the 1934 Wall Street Coup
War is a Racket by Brigadier General Smedley D. Butler should be required reading in every high School social studies in the United States.
War is a Racket by Brigadier General Smedley D. Butler should be required reading in every high School social studies in the United States.
Making Economics Accessible
The primary goal is to provide you with a clear and foundational understanding of political economy, serving as a launchpad for deeper engagement. No prior economic knowledge is needed to understand this guide.
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The primary goal is to provide you with a clear and foundational understanding of political economy, serving as a launchpad for deeper engagement. No prior economic knowledge is needed to understand this guide.
(link in the comments)
November 3, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Making Economics Accessible
The primary goal is to provide you with a clear and foundational understanding of political economy, serving as a launchpad for deeper engagement. No prior economic knowledge is needed to understand this guide.
(link in the comments)
The primary goal is to provide you with a clear and foundational understanding of political economy, serving as a launchpad for deeper engagement. No prior economic knowledge is needed to understand this guide.
(link in the comments)
We must form minds capable of liberty, hands capable of work, hearts capable of duty and souls capable of beauty.
October 31, 2025 at 5:11 PM
We must form minds capable of liberty, hands capable of work, hearts capable of duty and souls capable of beauty.
Carey understood something mainstream economists and politicians are only beginning to rediscover: that prosperity is not found in free trade but in free people and freedom requires the development of national productive powers not dependence on international banks and foreign monopolies.
October 30, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Carey understood something mainstream economists and politicians are only beginning to rediscover: that prosperity is not found in free trade but in free people and freedom requires the development of national productive powers not dependence on international banks and foreign monopolies.
Friedrich Schiller, Aesthetics and the Political Economy of Freedom
In an age drowning in metrics, propaganda and the politics of fear, we must return to first principles. How do free people remain free?
Beauty before freedom.
Freedom before power.
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In an age drowning in metrics, propaganda and the politics of fear, we must return to first principles. How do free people remain free?
Beauty before freedom.
Freedom before power.
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October 29, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Friedrich Schiller, Aesthetics and the Political Economy of Freedom
In an age drowning in metrics, propaganda and the politics of fear, we must return to first principles. How do free people remain free?
Beauty before freedom.
Freedom before power.
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In an age drowning in metrics, propaganda and the politics of fear, we must return to first principles. How do free people remain free?
Beauty before freedom.
Freedom before power.
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We traded engineering confidence for fear and national ambition went adrift.
Today, demand is surging. Our grid is strained. Industry is hollowed out. Electricity costs are rising. China and Russia are leading. We cannot pretend incremental policy adjustments will be enough.
Today, demand is surging. Our grid is strained. Industry is hollowed out. Electricity costs are rising. China and Russia are leading. We cannot pretend incremental policy adjustments will be enough.
October 28, 2025 at 5:44 PM
We traded engineering confidence for fear and national ambition went adrift.
Today, demand is surging. Our grid is strained. Industry is hollowed out. Electricity costs are rising. China and Russia are leading. We cannot pretend incremental policy adjustments will be enough.
Today, demand is surging. Our grid is strained. Industry is hollowed out. Electricity costs are rising. China and Russia are leading. We cannot pretend incremental policy adjustments will be enough.
A railroad unites regions into one productive organism. Grain from the plains, mining from the mountains and goods from factories all converge on the same arteries.
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#PoliticalEconomyProject #PoliticalEconomy #Infrastructure #Rail #AmericanSystem #IndustrialPolicy #PublicWorks
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#PoliticalEconomyProject #PoliticalEconomy #Infrastructure #Rail #AmericanSystem #IndustrialPolicy #PublicWorks
October 27, 2025 at 8:31 PM
A railroad unites regions into one productive organism. Grain from the plains, mining from the mountains and goods from factories all converge on the same arteries.
Link below
#PoliticalEconomyProject #PoliticalEconomy #Infrastructure #Rail #AmericanSystem #IndustrialPolicy #PublicWorks
Link below
#PoliticalEconomyProject #PoliticalEconomy #Infrastructure #Rail #AmericanSystem #IndustrialPolicy #PublicWorks
Mind-Bending Ideas from Edgar Allan Poe’s Theory of Everything
With so many headlines hurling ideas about “A post truth world,” I think it is apt to always return to the pursuit of truth as the foundation for everything.
Link below.
With so many headlines hurling ideas about “A post truth world,” I think it is apt to always return to the pursuit of truth as the foundation for everything.
Link below.
October 22, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Mind-Bending Ideas from Edgar Allan Poe’s Theory of Everything
With so many headlines hurling ideas about “A post truth world,” I think it is apt to always return to the pursuit of truth as the foundation for everything.
Link below.
With so many headlines hurling ideas about “A post truth world,” I think it is apt to always return to the pursuit of truth as the foundation for everything.
Link below.
Infrastructure isn’t just concrete and steel. It is the productive scaffolding of civilization. Either we rebuild it (through public financing) or we decay along with it.
Essay link in the comments.
Essay link in the comments.
October 21, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Infrastructure isn’t just concrete and steel. It is the productive scaffolding of civilization. Either we rebuild it (through public financing) or we decay along with it.
Essay link in the comments.
Essay link in the comments.