This Is Not Normal
You already know something is wrong. You've known for a while. The news cycle confirms it daily: climate collapse accelerating past every guardrail, genocide broadcast …
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The Map That Cannot Be Printed
The phrase "new world order" has been in circulation for so long, in so many registers, by so many speakers with so many different intentions, …
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The Fab and the Island
For two decades, the strategic conversation about Taiwan has been organised around the wrong question. The wrong question is whether China will invade Taiwan, and …
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It Is Too Much
It is too much. That is the first thing to say, and most of the writing about the present moment will not say it, because …
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What the Surplus Hides
On paper, Ireland is the only Western European country currently building government wealth at scale rather than running it down. By the standard measures, the …
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The Show Soldier
The Secretary of War spent his first fourteen months renaming the Pentagon, firing generals, closing the office that does long-range strategic analysis, and cutting 60,000 …
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The Last Desperate Gasps
In the first week of Operation Epic Fury, Iran destroyed $2.7 billion worth of irreplaceable US missile defense radars across four countries. Each AN/TPY-2 radar …
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