There is something unsettling about modern silence. The hum of a solar panel. The blink of a router. The quiet whirr of an inverter behind a barn. These things do not shout. They wait. And increasingly, they listen. This month,…

Amidst the tumult of controversial cabinet nominations, recriminations in the Democratic Party about why it was clobbered on Nov. 5, the Israeli–Hezbollah ceasefire, and Russia’s grinding advances in Ukraine, it is understandable why a major scandal that recently erupted in…