Cutting Through the Chaos with Wallace Garneau – Two fatal encounters, separated by ideology but bound by consequence, reveal how moral certainty and institutional distrust drive citizens into deadly conflict with law enforcement. By examining actions, incentives, and narratives rather than intent, this piece explores why political tribes excuse escalation, reject restraint, and move closer to violence that feels inevitable rather than...

Cutting Through the Chaos with Wallace Garneau – Immigration is often treated as a moral slogan rather than a system with limits. This episode examines assimilation as a rate-dependent process, asking what happens when societies absorb newcomers faster than shared norms can form. It explores culture, scale, and history to explain why cohesion depends on expectations, enforcement, and clear thinking about tradeoffs...

Cutting Through the Chaos with Wallace Garneau – Global platforms quietly reshape speech by limiting reach rather than banning words. Algorithms, foreign regulations, and non-state power converge to suppress dissent without formal prohibition. You can speak freely, but audiences disappear. Modern censorship operates invisibly, enforcing the narrowest global red lines while preserving the illusion of open discourse...

Cutting Through the Chaos with Wallace Garneau – If we want to understand the difference honestly, and not just dismiss everything we don’t like, we need a better framework. And that framework is intent. A religion is a system of belief created to seek truth about the world and humanity’s place in it. A cult is a system of belief created to gain control over people...

Cutting Through the Chaos with Wallace Garneau – At the individual level, misuse of free will produces local damage. At the institutional level, misuse produces systemic damage. Errors are replicated at scale. Mistakes become policy. Failures are insulated from correction because admitting error threatens legitimacy. This is the inversion that breaks civilizations. Highly centralized systems...

Cutting Through the Chaos with Wallace Garneau – When it comes to education, we rank eighteenth among developed nations. That should give us pause. Our competence was transmitted through education. We earned our reputation as the most productive and innovative nation on Earth, and for decades, we have continued collecting the returns as if nothing had changed. But something has changed...

Cutting Through the Chaos with Wallace Garneau – The Slotkin video is simply the most overt expression of this pattern to date. The question is why now. The answer is that Donald Trump, like Richard Nixon before him, is one of the only presidents who does not accept the supremacy of the intelligence bureaucracy. Only three presidents since the CIA’s founding have attempted to rein it in...

Cutting Through the Chaos with Wallace Garneau – Pride begins a fall long before the damage is visible. From the ancient story of Lucifer to the collapse of modern civilizations, this reflection explores how humility sustains moral order while pride corrodes truth, conscience, and shared values. It warns that societies endure not through power, but by choosing humility over self-rule...

Cutting Through the Chaos with Wallace Garneau – Lean Government is not about utopia. It is about direction. It is about building systems that improve rather than decay. It is about forcing the government to measure what matters, eliminate what does not, and restore the principle that the citizen, not the bureaucracy, is the customer. Our government is not broken by accident...

Cutting Through the Chaos with Wallace Garneau – Figures like Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens, who once played important roles in pushing back against left-wing insanity, have drifted into something else that I believe is driven more by the pursuit of fame than the pursuit of truth. And in that pursuit, they’re platforming people who should never be allowed anywhere near the Overton window...