TRuCAL: Truth-Recursive universal Confessional Attention Layer is an Augustine-inspired PyTorch toolkit for agency, moral alignment, and epistemic safety in AI. TRuCAL combines confessional recursion, vulnerability detection, and efficient boundary controls for advanced alignment. Truth, agency, and safe articulation—by John Augustine Young & team

A cultural essay examining how publishing gatekeepers shape what is printed, what is silenced, and how curated narratives define public reality. Explores historical patterns, modern media power, and the democratic stakes of epistemic control.

Epistemic Psychology re-founds psychology as the science of human autonomy and dependence under epistemic conditions. Moving from pathology to ontology, and from description to prescription, it integrates dissonance, clientelism, and fiduciary scaffolds into a diagnostic and normative research programme.

This paper develops Epistemic Clientelism Theory, analysing how academic institutions systematically delegate epistemic agency through clientelist exchange. It diagnoses fiduciary breaches, democratic failures, and epistemic injustices, and proposes fiduciary-epistemic governance reforms to restore autonomy and accountability.

Peter Kahl argues that epistemic violence in universities, journals, and academic platforms constitutes fiduciary breaches harming democratic discourse. He proposes radical fiduciary reforms for inclusive, pluralistic scholarship.

This essay critically analyses how restrictive communication policies at ACLU Northern California violate fiduciary duties, epistemic justice, and ADA compliance obligations, undermining institutional accountability and public trust.

Formal public update by Peter Kahl investigating governance opacity, undeclared trusteeships, and fiduciary failures at HEPI. A strategic analysis of higher education accountability in the UK.

Press release on legal warnings issued to Universities UK, Advance HE, GuildHE for fiduciary breaches and governance failures in UK higher education sector.

Peter Kahl’s essay critically examines systemic governance failures in UK higher education, including fiduciary opacity, epistemic clientelism, lobbying by charities, and administrative entrenchment. It proposes nationalisation with comprehensive fiduciary-epistemic reforms to restore accountability and justice.

Constitutional theory thesis explicitly reconceptualising media as epistemic gatekeepers, proposing fiduciary-epistemic governance to ensure democratic accountability, epistemic fairness, and public trust.

A landmark study redefining AI governance through fiduciary-epistemic theory. The Third Enclosure Movement classifies modern restrictions on knowledge—legal, technical, epistemic, and state—proposing fiduciary openness as an ethical foundation for regulating artificial intelligence.

A unified theoretical framework integrating political theory, political epistemology, and Epistemic Clientelism Theory to analyse and reform the structures of epistemic power in governance, institutions, and social systems.

A reflective essay by Peter Kahl on the fight against institutional injustice, the silence of journalism, and why courageous researchers must persist—even without a smoking gun.

Substack explicitly admitted to selectively suppressing scholarly content from search indexing. Read the full legal notice detailing fiduciary breaches, intentional interference, breach of contract, and potential class-action litigation.

Comprehensive dissertation by Peter Kahl on epistemic justice in higher education. Develops a fiduciary framework for universities as stewards of the epistemic commons, integrating philosophy, law, and comparative case studies.

Reflective essay on Notting Hill Carnival, where the marginalised take centre stage. A first-time visitor’s account of feathers, music, and identity, exploring race, visibility, liberation, and belonging in Britain’s largest street festival.

This academic paper critically examines traditional peer-review processes in academia, exposing embedded colonial epistemic structures and proposing a transformative ‘epistemocratic’ governance model to proactively foster epistemic justice, inclusivity, cognitive diversity, and scholarly autonomy.

Directors’ fiduciary obligations extend beyond finance to include epistemic duties. This thesis develops normative and operational frameworks for embedding epistemic openness into corporate governance, strengthening accountability, innovation, and legitimacy.

An epistemic-ethical critique of higher education using the University of Reading’s LLM experience as case study. Diagnoses epistemic clientelism and optocratic drift, proposing a pedagogy of fiduciary dialogue grounded in trust, candour, and justice—feedback as covenant, not survey.

The Fiduciary Mind redefines cognition as a moral–epistemic process grounded in trust, candour, and care. Extending What Happens When You Clap?, it develops a phenomenology of fiduciary cognition where dissonance signals ethical imbalance and knowing becomes a reciprocal act of truth-keeping between mind and world.