Trump, Transparency, and the Fragility of Spectacle

Myths Break on the Heel

Every myth has its flaw—a hairline fracture so precise it waits for the right rhythm to split wide open. Achilles had his heel. Trump may have Epstein. And when myth breaks, it doesn’t shatter all at once. It pulses, skips, syncopates.

In Trump’s refusal to release the Epstein files—files that could either exonerate or implicate—he’s no longer wielding the spotlight. He’s caught beneath it. read more

The Spider, the Mask, the Archive

Epstein as Metaphor in a Syncopated Age

In the cathedral of shadows that power tends to build, the figure of Jeffrey Epstein remains both elusive and revealing—not as a man, but as a metaphor. He is the shape of silence, the architecture of complicity, the syncopated beat in the score of societal suppression. If the metaphor is the medium through which we process what we can’t touch directly, Epstein becomes a cipher for what power looks like when left unchecked and unexamined. read more