In light of recent developments, it is time to acknowledge a persistent and costly failure in our civic naming conventions. Streets, schools, and public buildings—those modest but ubiquitous carriers of communal esteem—have proven distressingly vulnerable to reputational decay. Individuals once deemed worthy of honor are, with increasing frequency,

Time, Beneficiaries, and the Long View The previous installments traced a complete circuit: how metric-governed systems produce harm without deciding to, how accountability evaporates through distributed responsibility, how behavior reveals optimization targets that rhetoric conceals, how categories determine what can be seen, why documentation fails to produce change, and how