A system can be described without being understood. When people talk about pressure, they often imagine something overt and intentional—a demand issued, a rule imposed, a vote taken, a punishment threatened. In…

Part II: The Analytical Foundation. If Part I establishes what the anti-ESG ecosystem is and how pressure enters it, Part II explains how that pressure actually moves. This section provides the analytical…

There was a House of ancient name    that stood beside the fen,and all the scholars in that House    were sons of wealthy men. And this was said in every street    and cried at...

This chapter explains how anti-ESG pressure becomes operational. It traces the path by which opposition moves from rhetorical positioning into institutional constraint, altering...

Kristina Wyatt is a good friend of mine and recently became the General Counsel of The Conservation Fund. We were both together at a small private sustainability gathering a few...

The story most readers think they know—ESG rises, ESG overreaches, ESG collapses—sounds tidy and is therefore tempting. But it mislocates the object. ESG is not the system this...

I dedicate this book to the most amazing woman I know in this world: my wife Anne Laurin Eccles. We met on a blind date 43 years ago and got married one year later to the day. We...

There is no single event which launched the Anti-ESG campaign which led, after only six years, to a robust Anti-ESG Ecosystem. The ecosystem is the subject of my book and what...

Dear All, I had a little hiccup with Substack this morning and the wrong post went out. I will be posting the one about the anti-ESG ecosystem book on Sunday. The one I just sent...

Earlier this week I published Stories I Won’t Remember Writing by Claude (author) and me (editor). In my Substack post I mentioned that I had asked him to write me a process memo...

Last week I told a story about companies. The ones with the best AI models tend to guard them; the ones playing catch-up tend to give theirs away. Where a player sits, I argued,...

It is with great pleasure and excitment that I announce what I believe to be the first collection of short stories written entirely by an AI agent. Or at least a collection where...

For roughly 2,000 years one civilization guarded a secret the rest of the world would have paid almost anything to learn—and made sure it stayed guarded. Sometime in the...

Rule 14a-8 has let shareholders put proposals to a vote for more than eighty years, and the SEC now seems poised to rewrite or repeal it. In an October 2025 keynote, Chairman...

Yesterday the Harvard Business Review published a short piece written by Shiva Rajgopal and me titled “AI Can Measure How ESG Really Impacts the Bottom Line.” The foundation for...