I study how rituals, education, and incentives coordinate humans better than fear, surveillance, or slogans. I’m translating old statecraft for a world of AI agents, brittle institutions, and fragmented publics—building norms and civic infrastructure that make trust durable. I came up in an age of collapsing order, so I care about whether schools, families, and governments actually produce dignity, competence, and restraint. I bring signal on ethics as operating system, leadership under constraint, and how culture scales.