Evan Matthew Papp
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Evan Matthew Papp
@evanmatthewpapp.bsky.social
Union Solidarity Forever
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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
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
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
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
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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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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