Three books. One framework. Published by Frontline Club Books.
A Field Guide to What We Are Actually Facing
Vaughan Smith
A pamphlet, approximately thirteen thousand words. The framework in portable form, written to be read in one sitting and carried into conversations that need it. The entry point for readers who want the argument before the evidence.
The wrong diagnosis is the one the public conversation currently runs on: that contemporary autocrats came from nowhere, that they and their supporters are the problem, and that the solution is to defeat them at the ballot box. The right diagnosis is architectural. The pamphlet names it.
The pamphlet is the entry point. The book is the full statement. The case study is the proof.
Vaughan Smith · Foreword by Katalin Gothard, M.D., Ph.D.
One hundred and twenty-five thousand words across twenty-four chapters. The framework's full statement. How cooperative societies built and lost the architecture that held the pattern in view, its breaking at industrial scale, the scholarship read together in one room, and what the response looks like when it follows from the architecture rather than from medical or carceral logic.
The book convenes the work of approximately twenty-eight scholars across clinical personality research, evolutionary anthropology, primatology, neuroscience, moral philosophy, Reconstruction history and dark-money architecture. Each saw something within their discipline. None saw what they all see together. The integration is the picture that comes from reading them in one room.
Foreword by Katalin Gothard, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Physiology and Neuroscience at the University of Arizona, whose research on the neural basis of social behaviour, trust and empathy grounds the book's neuroscience.
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How They Stole America
Vaughan Smith
Thirty-five thousand words. The framework applied to the United States: the post-1971 project from the Powell Memorandum through the Federalist Society judicial pipeline to Shelby County and Callais read as one continuous architecture whose cumulative effect is the second reclamation of the political settlement the Civil War was fought over. The companion volume to The Extraction Pattern.
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True Regard is a publishing programme, not a single book. The three artefacts above are the first statement. Further publications from Frontline Club Books will be announced here as they are confirmed.