Liberty or Deathwire — Andrew B. Raupphttps://andrewbraupp.com/liberty-or-deathwire/The collected Liberty or Deathwire essays.en-usPrivate Equity’s Dead Man’s Handshakehttps://andrewbraupp.com/liberty-or-deathwire/essays/private-equitys-dead-mans-handshake/https://andrewbraupp.com/liberty-or-deathwire/essays/private-equitys-dead-mans-handshake/Thu, 27 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000How the Registrar Was Bought, the Principle Was Sold, and Customers Were Left to Rescue Their Own NamesExamining Wells Fargo’s SMART Dust Payment Patenthttps://andrewbraupp.com/liberty-or-deathwire/essays/inside-wells-fargos-smart-dust-payment/https://andrewbraupp.com/liberty-or-deathwire/essays/inside-wells-fargos-smart-dust-payment/Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000The Government-Born Technology That Could Redefine Identity, Privacy, and ControlBelow 451°https://andrewbraupp.com/liberty-or-deathwire/essays/the-new-fahrenheit-451-without-the/https://andrewbraupp.com/liberty-or-deathwire/essays/the-new-fahrenheit-451-without-the/Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000Anthropic’s Project Panama: Everything the Technocrats Promised, At Room TemperatureWhen Common Sense Became Uncommonhttps://andrewbraupp.com/liberty-or-deathwire/essays/when-common-sense-became-uncommon/https://andrewbraupp.com/liberty-or-deathwire/essays/when-common-sense-became-uncommon/Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000Good times have made weak men—and comfort has taught a free people to outsource the judgment on which freedom depends. Read the full version of Thomas Paine's famous pamphlet here!Inside Facebook’s Emotional Laboratoryhttps://andrewbraupp.com/liberty-or-deathwire/essays/inside-facebooks-emotional-laboratory/https://andrewbraupp.com/liberty-or-deathwire/essays/inside-facebooks-emotional-laboratory/Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000How the platform secretly tested whether it could change your mood—and proved it could.The Pathogen Archipelagohttps://andrewbraupp.com/liberty-or-deathwire/essays/the-pathogen-archipelago/https://andrewbraupp.com/liberty-or-deathwire/essays/the-pathogen-archipelago/Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000Redacted files, foreign funding, and laboratories in a war zone: what remained hidden is the real story—until now.The Relic at the Center of the Republichttps://andrewbraupp.com/liberty-or-deathwire/essays/the-relic-at-the-center-of-the-republic/https://andrewbraupp.com/liberty-or-deathwire/essays/the-relic-at-the-center-of-the-republic/Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000The founders feared party as the Crown’s old disease; the Uniparty is its modern form — two rival banners guarding one captured system.The Forgotten Science of Electricity-Free Coolinghttps://andrewbraupp.com/liberty-or-deathwire/essays/the-forgotten-science-of-making-cold/https://andrewbraupp.com/liberty-or-deathwire/essays/the-forgotten-science-of-making-cold/Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000Three Hundred Years Later, Salt Is Cooling the Future AgainMillions of Tiny Permissions You Never Gavehttps://andrewbraupp.com/liberty-or-deathwire/essays/millions-of-tiny-permissions-you/https://andrewbraupp.com/liberty-or-deathwire/essays/millions-of-tiny-permissions-you/Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000Inside Google’s proposed mosquito release and the fight over who controls the air above your homeThe Backyard Is Now the Front Linehttps://andrewbraupp.com/liberty-or-deathwire/essays/the-backyard-is-now-the-front-line/https://andrewbraupp.com/liberty-or-deathwire/essays/the-backyard-is-now-the-front-line/Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000Victory Gardens: Where Freedom Takes Root (Again)The Compute Homestead: A Citizen Answer to the Data Center Crisishttps://andrewbraupp.com/liberty-or-deathwire/essays/the-compute-homestead-a-citizen-answer/https://andrewbraupp.com/liberty-or-deathwire/essays/the-compute-homestead-a-citizen-answer/Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000A Blueprint for Safe Local Compute, Energy Independence, and Family Ownership in the Age of Artificial IntelligenceDeuterium-Depleted Water and the New Metabolic Populismhttps://andrewbraupp.com/liberty-or-deathwire/essays/deuterium-depleted-water-and-the/https://andrewbraupp.com/liberty-or-deathwire/essays/deuterium-depleted-water-and-the/Sat, 25 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000How Isotope Biology, Mitochondrial Function, and Buried Science are Reshaping the Fight for Health SovereigntySTEM Heutagogics as the Silver Bullet Against Technofeudalismhttps://andrewbraupp.com/liberty-or-deathwire/essays/stem-heutagogics-as-the-silver-bullet/https://andrewbraupp.com/liberty-or-deathwire/essays/stem-heutagogics-as-the-silver-bullet/Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000A structural case for preserving human agency in system-dominant learning environmentsThe War Within the Makerhttps://andrewbraupp.com/liberty-or-deathwire/essays/the-war-within-the-maker/https://andrewbraupp.com/liberty-or-deathwire/essays/the-war-within-the-maker/Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000A future built faster than it can be understoodBuilt to Serve, Designed to Replacehttps://andrewbraupp.com/liberty-or-deathwire/essays/built-to-serve-designed-to-replace/https://andrewbraupp.com/liberty-or-deathwire/essays/built-to-serve-designed-to-replace/Fri, 03 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000A STEM-Minded Repudiation of Artificial Intelligence in Defense of Human LibertyToward the Restoration of STEMhttps://andrewbraupp.com/liberty-or-deathwire/essays/toward-the-restoration-of-stem/https://andrewbraupp.com/liberty-or-deathwire/essays/toward-the-restoration-of-stem/Mon, 30 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000A decisive rebuttal to “The Case Against STEM,” published by The New Atlantis, where capture is mistaken for meaning.The Mathematical Incompleteness of Technocracyhttps://andrewbraupp.com/liberty-or-deathwire/essays/a-godelian-raupp-refutation-of-technocracy/https://andrewbraupp.com/liberty-or-deathwire/essays/a-godelian-raupp-refutation-of-technocracy/Tue, 17 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000A Gödelian-Raupp Refutation of Algorithmic Governance, Dataism & Harari's Myth of Computable ManCancer Faces a Populist Revolthttps://andrewbraupp.com/liberty-or-deathwire/essays/the-hidden-soviet-cancer-file-that/https://andrewbraupp.com/liberty-or-deathwire/essays/the-hidden-soviet-cancer-file-that/Mon, 16 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000Viral Information Is Reviving Debate Over the Disease’s Metabolic FoundationsTechnocracy vs. the Imago Deihttps://andrewbraupp.com/liberty-or-deathwire/essays/technocracy-vs-the-imago-dei/https://andrewbraupp.com/liberty-or-deathwire/essays/technocracy-vs-the-imago-dei/Tue, 10 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000A Theological Critique of the Twofold Reduction of ManFalse Patriots and the Fate of the American Experimenthttps://andrewbraupp.com/liberty-or-deathwire/essays/false-patriots-and-the-fate-of-the/https://andrewbraupp.com/liberty-or-deathwire/essays/false-patriots-and-the-fate-of-the/Sat, 07 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000A Warning on Faction, Foreign Influence, and the Discipline of LibertyProject Artichoke: When the State Studied How to Break the Mindhttps://andrewbraupp.com/liberty-or-deathwire/essays/project-artichoke-when-the-state/https://andrewbraupp.com/liberty-or-deathwire/essays/project-artichoke-when-the-state/Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000How Intelligence Agencies Tested the Limits of Free WillWho Patented Our Mortality?https://andrewbraupp.com/liberty-or-deathwire/essays/who-patented-our-mortality/https://andrewbraupp.com/liberty-or-deathwire/essays/who-patented-our-mortality/Thu, 26 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000If aging can be reversed, control of time becomes power.Code.org Founder’s Post-Conviction Contact with Epstein Raises Questionshttps://andrewbraupp.com/liberty-or-deathwire/essays/codeorg-founders-post-conviction/https://andrewbraupp.com/liberty-or-deathwire/essays/codeorg-founders-post-conviction/Wed, 18 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000Publicly Released DOJ Documents Confirm Contact — The Substance Remains UnansweredPandemic Governance Under the Microscope: Michigan’s Nursing Home Fallouthttps://andrewbraupp.com/liberty-or-deathwire/essays/pandemic-governance-under-the-microscope/https://andrewbraupp.com/liberty-or-deathwire/essays/pandemic-governance-under-the-microscope/Sat, 14 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000The Governor’s Gamble and the Concentration of MortalityThey No Longer Care What You Thinkhttps://andrewbraupp.com/liberty-or-deathwire/essays/they-no-longer-care-what-you-think/https://andrewbraupp.com/liberty-or-deathwire/essays/they-no-longer-care-what-you-think/Mon, 02 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000How unaccountable power learned to rule in daylight — and why resignation, not resistance, has become its greatest ally.The World That Would Not Obeyhttps://andrewbraupp.com/liberty-or-deathwire/essays/the-world-that-would-not-obey/https://andrewbraupp.com/liberty-or-deathwire/essays/the-world-that-would-not-obey/Sun, 18 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000The Architecture of Control—and Its Unintended ConsequencesThe Biological Debt of Modern Illuminationhttps://andrewbraupp.com/liberty-or-deathwire/essays/the-biological-debt-of-modern-illumination/https://andrewbraupp.com/liberty-or-deathwire/essays/the-biological-debt-of-modern-illumination/Mon, 05 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000How “Efficient” Light Became a Nationwide Experiment on the Human BodyThe Cost of Algorithmic Obediencehttps://andrewbraupp.com/liberty-or-deathwire/essays/the-cost-of-obedience/https://andrewbraupp.com/liberty-or-deathwire/essays/the-cost-of-obedience/Wed, 31 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000Dynamic Pricing, Social Credit and the Quiet Reordering of Economic LibertyDefending Everything Except the Faithhttps://andrewbraupp.com/liberty-or-deathwire/essays/what-happens-when-christianity-wont/https://andrewbraupp.com/liberty-or-deathwire/essays/what-happens-when-christianity-wont/Sun, 28 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000The Moral Inversion of Post-Reformation Christianity LeadershipThe Day Britain Buried the Magna Cartahttps://andrewbraupp.com/liberty-or-deathwire/essays/the-day-britain-buried-magna-carta/https://andrewbraupp.com/liberty-or-deathwire/essays/the-day-britain-buried-magna-carta/Fri, 05 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000UK Government Just Deleted Trial by Jury — You Should Be Alarmed