Volume VIII
A Misanthropic Artifice
The Academic, Governed by Saturn
Sections
01Prologue · Two Scenes4 minutes02Saturn's Day: Cosmological Opening and Register5 minutes03Where the Work Has Brought Us2 minutes04The Accounting10 minutes05The Present Tense: A Reckoning of the Year 202613 minutes06The Birds and the Bees, the Second Meaning4 minutes07The Meaning of the Title2 minutes08Three Dangers2 minutes09Let the Architects Speak2 minutes10What Power Selects For2 minutes11The Strain on Liberal Democracy2 minutes12Why Write One More Book4 minutes13The Same Tools, a Different Purpose4 minutes14How Providence Would Tend Three Primal Goods5 minutes15PURPOSEFUL and Human Development2 minutes16The Scales of the Dragon2 minutes17Two Addresses1 minute18The first address: to those who would own the world2 minutes19The second address: to the frightened4 minutes20A Blessing and a Door2 minutes21Appendix A: The Fork, Two Roads Side by Side1 minute22Appendix B: The First Stone One Person Can Lay This Week1 minute23For your attention: take it back.1 minute24For your body and your ground.1 minute25For your bonds.1 minute26For the tending.1 minute27For coordination: the actual work.1 minute28For the long view.1 minute29The Roots of This Volume1 minute30The living world.2 minutes31The state of 2026.2 minutes