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.

A landmark study redefining democracy through fiduciary-epistemic theory. This paper argues that AI firms function as knowledge fiduciaries and that democracy’s survival depends on embedding fiduciary duties—candour, care, impartiality, and accessibility—into the architecture of AI governance. It proposes new legal forms such as Epistemic Fiduciary

Report on Times Higher Education by Peter Kahl (Lex et Ratio Ltd, 2025). Examines structural conflicts of interest in THE’s rankings, journalism, and consultancy. Highlights epistemic clientelism, opaque convening, and the need for transparency, structural separation, and fiduciary openness.

This paper introduces ‘epistemic transposition’, reframing ethical and fiduciary duties as epistemic obligations grounded in epistemic humility. A novel contribution to virtue epistemology, fiduciary theory, and institutional accountability.

A multimodal odyssey of poetry, prose, and image exploring epistemic clientelism, accreditation, doubt, emancipation, and the city of free thinkers.

An interdisciplinary analysis of substitutive visibility in academia, showing how executive-centred branding distorts epistemic credit, breaches fiduciary duties, and compounds testimonial and contributory injustice, with reforms for fiduciary openness and representational equity.

Evidence-based policy paper analysing governance, market, and fiscal risks in England’s higher education sector, featuring the HEPI case study and reform proposals to embed fiduciary openness and independent oversight.

This policy report argues that UK higher education should be treated as critical national infrastructure. It highlights systemic risks from market fragility, fiscal exposure, and governance opacity, and sets out reforms for fiduciary openness, resilience planning, and conflict-proofed oversight.

🧠 Explore a multimodal manifesto that empowers free thinking, challenges academic norms, and inspires self-emancipation through poetry, essays, and images.