[TTP:  This is the last of a three-part series we’re covering this week. The first part is here and the second part is here.

We’ll pick up right where we left off yesterday.]

And that’s just food. Without electricity, drinking water in all cities would be unavailable.

Large electric pumps push water into the municipal supply, often to great heights.

And then the water has to be treated to make it safe to drink.

Before electrification powered by fossil fuels, drinking water for most people was both contaminated and far away.

Fossil fuels have also made clothing more available than ever. As Epstein writes, “Before widespread use of electricity, most people had only several items of clothing for their entire lifetimes,” but today “we use machines to grow the raw materials for clothing (or, in the case of synthetic clothing, to drill for them), to produce fabrics, to sew fabrics into clothing, to transport clothing. All of this makes clothing production so cost-effective that a poor person can buy a very warm winter jacket at Walmart for $50.”

Along with warm clothing, fossil fuels give us warm shelter.

[TTP: This article is a deep dive. It will take about 15 minutes to read.

And it is worth every minute!]

Yes, this administration has a plan.

Yes, there is going to be a reset to the global financial system.

Yes, it is already being executed.

No, it is probably nothing like what you think.

Over the last fifteen months, a series of seemingly unrelated moves, tariffs, military operations, legislation, regulatory shifts, defense pacts, have been playing out across different theatres at the same time.

Most people are watching each one in isolation.

The tariff people are talking about tariffs. The military people are talking about Iran. The crypto people are talking about stablecoins. The economists are still saying so much but nothing at all. Almost nobody is connecting them.

This article aims to connect them. What follows is the full picture of what is actually being built, how each piece locks into the next, and why the result is a new global financial architecture that will define the next fifty years of American power. By the end, you may gain clarity on something that most of the world has not figured out yet.

[TTP: Today’s articles were chosen specifically to show the results of thinking rationally and the refusal to do so.]

The deepest mind of the modern age sat in a lecture hall and admitted that a priest had out-thought him regarding the beginning of the world.

This is the story of how thinking all the way to the end stops looking like an argument and starts looking like awe.

In January of 1933, in a packed hall at Caltech, Albert Einstein listened to a Belgian priest explain how the universe began, and then he stood up in front of a room full of physicists and said it was the most beautiful explanation of creation he had ever heard.

This was not a man easily impressed, and it was not a conclusion he had wanted to reach.

A few years earlier Einstein had told the same priest, to his face, that his mathematics were fine but his physics were abominable. The idea offended him.

The priest, Georges Lemaître, was arguing that the universe was not the eternal, static, always-having-existed thing that every serious scientist assumed it to be.

He was arguing that it had a beginning. That if you ran the expansion of the galaxies backward far enough, everything collapsed to a single dense point, a moment before which there was no before.

Lemaître called it, with a poet’s ear, a day without yesterday.

Einstein hated it, and the reason he hated it is the most revealing part of the whole story.

[TTP: Today’s articles were chosen specifically to show the results of thinking rationally and the refusal to do so.]

Every day, thousands of Los Angelenos take a deep breath, step out of their houses, and plunge themselves into a transit experience straight out of Mad Max. The city’s buses have become rolling homeless shelters, replete with drugs and feces.

Its trains are home to murder and mayhem. As Daquan, a daily rider who works near the North Hollywood station told us, “You could kill somebody down there and just get away with it.”

The transformation has been swift and stark. Between 2020 and 2025, crime in the system more than doubled.

What drove the change? L.A. Metro’s dedication to creating an equitable transit system, where all Angelenos—drug-addicted, homicidal maniacs included—can effectively ride free, without consequences.

In other words, Angelenos have been condemned to die underground, all in the name of racial justice.

Activists and their allies in city government have spent years laser-focused on driving cops from the L.A. Metro’s buses and trains. Their argument: making people pay to use the trains is racist.