The Network Is the Factory A nation that cannot make essential goods is not sovereign. It is exposed. Domestic manufacturing, free from adversarial meddling, is a prerequisite for national security and for a healthy middle class. We can see this in the hard lessons of world wars, and in the

The Tower of Babel Problem Babel is a story from Genesis about a project that looks strong and still fails at the handoff. The failure is not brick or scaffolding, it is shared meaning. The build stalls the moment language stops matching intent. American manufacturing has been drifting toward the

To the Builders of American Industry To the builders, buyers, shop owners, foremen, estimators, machinists, engineers, quality managers, and program leads who still make real things, and to the programmers, data scientists, economists, politicians, investors, bankers, and operators who support them and depend upon them, whether they know it or