Two books

What Would the Founding Fathers Tell Us Today? examines American democracy through a series of imagined but historically grounded political dialogues spanning from 1789 to 2040. The book focuses on how the Founders understood power, liberty, legitimacy, and civic responsibility, and how those ideas were embedded in the design of American institutions.

Rather than treating the Founders as authorities who provide ready-made answers, the book places their institutional assumptions in conversation with modern governance. It explores what the Founders expected institutions to do, what kinds of trust they believed systems needed to earn, and how citizens were meant to evaluate power over time.

Where What Would the Founding Fathers Tell Us Today? focuses on institutional design and civic foundations,

Restore Trust examines institutional performance and economic structure. Together, the two works argue that trust in democracy does not arise from rhetoric or cultural agreement, but from systems that behave predictably, distribute power and risk fairly, and remain accountable to the public.

By connecting founding-era assumptions about legitimacy with modern economic incentives and lived experience, the books form a coherent framework: the first clarifies how American institutions were intended to function, and the second explains why trust has eroded—and how it can be restored through structural reform. Both works are intentionally non-partisan and designed to improve civic literacy, not to promote ideological conclusions.

What Would the Founding Fathers Tell Us Today? focuses on institutional design and civic foundations,

Restore Trust examines institutional performance and economic structure.