The Chainsaw and the Sickle: Two Nations, Two Fates
Imagine two Latin American giants. Both once ranked among the continent’s wealthiest. One turned toward collectivism. The other is rediscovering the power of individual liberty.
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Writing about politics, history, economics, business and technology, I unpack ideas and stories that shape our worldview, blending in reflections on the human spirit to spark meaningful discussions.
Selected writings
The outlet and date are where each essay was first published. The link opens the version on her Substack “Claire’s Corner.”
Ambition’s Crossroads
Ambition as a fork in the road: Caesar’s hubris set against Hugo, Zola, Buffett, and Lutnick, and the cost of Lampert’s greed.
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Flipping The Board: A Tale of Knights, Queens and a New Balance of Power
The February 2026 strike in Tehran, read as a chess move that rearranged the board among Washington, Jerusalem, Tehran, and Beijing.
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Where Money Learned to Wear Tecovas: Inside the Rise of Y’all Street
How Texas stopped being only an energy story and became Y’all Street — a finance capital with its own exchange.
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NVIDIA’s AI Revolution: The Gaming Giant Changing the World
From graphics cards to the machinery of artificial intelligence: what NVIDIA built, and what GTC 2026 said comes next.
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“A Republic, If You Can Keep It” — The American Experiment at 250
Franklin’s answer outside the Constitutional Convention, and why a republic nearly 250 years old is still a thing that has to be kept.
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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Elon
Three takeaways from Walter Isaacson’s biography: the case for risk, Musk’s working algorithm, and why the reading list matters.
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Five Pillars and the Link of Generations: A Different Mission to Israel in a Time of Chaos and Despair
Notes from the Intergenerational Tikvah Mission in the summer of 2024, and Avraham Infeld’s five pillars of Jewish continuity.
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The Underrated Engine of American Greatness
Why economic liberty, from the Founders’ idea of independence through property, is what keeps American self-government standing.
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Welcome to the Farm: All Equal, All Betrayed
A reply to the claim that collectivism is warmer than individualism, and what happens when accountability is treated as cold.
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From the Hollywood to the Judean Hills: A Tractate on Self-Respect
Self-respect as the refusal to lie to yourself, read through Joan Didion and the Jewish practice of tshuvah.
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A conversation with Dr. Naya Lekht on The Hidden History of a “Respectable” Hatred: Soviet Antizionism
How the Soviet Union turned antizionism into a respectable political language, and why that language is still in circulation.
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