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Influential Will: A Ratio-Based Theory of Human Behavior

Beyond Free Will and Determinism — A New Framework for Understanding Why We Act, Decide, and Change

Jul 9

Emotional triangle showing Bio (blue), Psycho (red), and Social (green) forces pulling at each side; center frays from tension. Caption asks: “What influences your will?”

Jul 9

Sunday Spin Filter — July 5, 2025

What aired on Sunday — and what was erased from view

Jul 5

Anchor on screen in front of Capitol with logos of Sunday shows like Face the Nation, Meet the Press, and Fox News Sunday. Header text reads: Sunday Spin Filter.

Jul 5

Week’s End: July 5, 2025

Immunity, Mines, and Silent Collapse

Jul 5

Dark-toned image with U.S. Capitol and large clock at 11:59. Text reads “Week’s End: Understand News, Its Processes and Why It Matters.” Symbolizes political urgency and timing.

Jul 5

The Mind Before English: Lost Ways of Knowing from Vanished Languages

What the Oldest Tongues Understood About Thought That English Can’t Say

Jul 4

A moss-covered stone path winds through a misty forest, fading into fog. Ancient symbols carved into stones evoke sacred restraint and the reverence of paths not taken.

Jul 4

Who Should Appoint America’s Independent Agency Heads?

Examining Constitutional Barriers, Legislative Alternatives, and the Future of Political Power Balancing

Jul 3

A 2D digital illustration of a neoclassical government building blueprint being altered by two hands using red pencils — one crossing out sections, the other outlining additions.

Jul 3

Reaction Lag Theory: Spend Nothing, Feel Nothing

A Psychological Model of Withholding, Echoed Behavior, and Present Misalignment

Jul 2

A person sits on a bench while multiple faded shadows trail behind them in fog, symbolizing emotional lag, past echoes, and psychological withholding.

Jul 2

One Ruler at a Time: How the Unitary Executive Would Have Changed Ten Presidencies

If America’s last ten presidents governed with unchecked executive power, the United States might still look like a democracy — but…

Jul 1

Glossary of Unitary Executive Theory terms: executive privilege, Chevron deference, Project 2025, and signing statements as presidential power tools.

Jul 1

Toward the Uncrowned King: Trump, Project 2025, and the American Slide into Elective Autocracy

How Project 2025 mirrors authoritarian transitions in Hungary and Turkey — and what America’s first twelve months under Trump’s return…

Jun 30

Table comparing Trump, Orbán, and Erdoğan on entry to power, system manipulation, media strategy, judicial capture, and protest suppression.

Jun 30

Understanding the Week Ahead: June 30 — July 6, 2025

Independence, Interdependence, and Invisible Shifts

Jun 29

Graphic calendar titled ‘Understand the Week Ahead’ showing Sunday to Saturday themes: talk shows, legislation, courts, press gaps, tech systems, culture and speech, weekly recap

Jun 29

Sunday Spin Filter: June 29, 2025

Power declares itself steady while systems fracture in silence.

Jun 28

Anchor on screen in front of Capitol with logos of Sunday shows like Face the Nation, Meet the Press, and Fox News Sunday. Header text reads: Sunday Spin Filter.

Jun 28

S. C. Harist

S. C. Harist

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Investigating systems, semantics, and civic structures. I write what others skip: political design, media silence, and psychological frameworks.

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