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The Marketing of Evil, Grooming "Consent"
World War Wednesday: Propaganda in the rise of fascism
Apr 9
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The Problem of Faithless Heroes
Monday Memo: 4/6 AD 2026
Apr 7
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Reign of the terrible simplifiers
Governing elites today prefer caricature over the complexity of real life. They try to flatten reality but reality bounces back.
Apr 4
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Before we took to the stars we claimed the clouds
Cheer the astronauts. But history warns that technological leaps often pivot from discovery to the cold machinery of warfare.
Apr 2
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March 2026
The Moralization of Suffering: Trauma and Authority in Israel and Palestine
Israel and Palestine are trapped by a symmetrical victimhood. Explore why the moralization of suffering thwarts peace and the realist path to true…
Mar 31
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Going Abroad in Search of Monsters to Destroy?
Friday Flashpoint: March 27, AD2026
Mar 28
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The Great Numbness: Life in the Post-Great War Wreckage
The emptiness of looksmaxxing feels eerily similar to the Interwar Years and what happened when cultures lost their internal compasses to the war and…
Mar 26
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America: The 250-Year-Old Parvenu
To last, America’s institutions and its constitution need a shared memory.
Mar 24
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The Brülljesmacher’s Einkreisung: Trump's Strategic Isolation of America
How current US diplomacy mirrors historical German failures, leading to a self-inflicted and dangerous strategic isolation.
Mar 20
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Edward VIII's Irish Goodbye
Éamon de Valera's ruthless campaign to drive the British crown from free Ireland.
Mar 19
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The United States of Grudges
America is trading big ideas for small grudges. Is diaspora politics' influence on foreign policy provoking new resentment against the political class?
Mar 16
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Iran vs. Israel vs. China, and the "Unsettled" Science at the Heart of Russian Global Strategy
Did Israel Solve Iran’s gerontocracy problem for them? Does Russia have a secret infinite money cheat code? Is March 31st the next geopolitical…
Mar 14
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