Why Nothing Ever Happens • Chasing Sunsets
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A case for mission-style governance in national and international politics.
Why Nothing Ever Happens • Chasing Sunsets ← Why Nothing Ever Happens Published: April 10, 2026 I’m going to tell you a story. It is not a true story. Please ignore that fact; you can argue with me later if it seems relevant. In The Games I Play , I mentioned that I used to play Cities: Skylines, a game whose objective is to build as large of a city as possible. It’s a difficult game to play. Your city begins with a single highway exit. You connect a road to it, a simple two-lane road because that’s all you have the money to build. You zone that road for houses. People move into those houses,
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