Fulton and the Case Against Normalcy
A long-ago speech by a foreign dignitary may hold the key to recovering some lost wisdom about how America came into this role in the first place.
Brian Stewart
· 11 min read
World Affairs
A collection of 149 posts
Starvation and Ethnic Cleansing Stalk Ethiopia
The Ethiopian government has attempted to maintain total control of the narrative by locking down the region and imposing a communications blackout.
James Jeffrey
· 8 min read
COVID-19 and the Ongoing Global Workplace Revolution
The pandemic has done much to undermine the basis for urban supremacy.
Joel Kotkin and Hügo Krüger
· 14 min read
China and the Question of Taiwan
In modern-day China, nationalism is at its strongest when dealing with the idea—almost an article of religious faith—that the independent island nation of Taiwan is in fact a Chinese state and must be unified with the mainland as soon as possible.
Aaron Sarin
· 13 min read
A Misremembered Day of Infamy
Brian Stewart
· 10 min read
An Optimistic Outlook on 2021
The events of 2020 have caused precisely these sorts of setbacks in global collective human progress.
Tony Morley
· 7 min read
Corruption: Greasing the Wheels of the World
The fish rots from the head, but the tail has rotting rights too. Comrade GAIchik had such rights—and rights they were/are, though not codified.
John Lloyd
· 15 min read
The Videogame That Takes Us Inside the Hell of a Nazi-Run World
The New Order starts off in 1962, but not the 1962 we know. In this timeline, the Axis powers have conquered Eurasia, and are now seeking to bring Africa to heel, along with other far-flung corners of the world.
Carlos Miguel del Callar
· 9 min read
A Brief History of China's One-Child Policy
In a dizzying volte-face, the world’s most murderously anti-natalist regime has become its most pleadingly pro-natalist.
Aaron Sarin
· 15 min read
A Loss of Direction and the Rise of Populisms
There is nevertheless a glimmer of hope—the possibility that, despite recent calamities, we are in fact still living in the Age of Moderation and that this is a blip and not an epochal change
Joseph B. Juhasz and András Tóth
· 16 min read
Making the World Safe for Autocracy
Brian Stewart
· 4 min read
Totally Under Control—A Review
Totally Under Control is squarely focused on the bungling, mismanagement, and incoherence of the Trump administration.
Razib Khan
· 14 min read
Secular Modernity under Theocratic Assault
Brian Stewart
· 7 min read
China’s Stateless Nations
Aaron Sarin
· 11 min read
What Happened to America’s Soft Power?
What Marc saw as relatively smooth sailing for the CIA’s critical operations during the first two years of the Trump administration is beginning to change.
Art Keller
· 8 min read