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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Tagged: Sovereignty
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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 Island That Went First
So imagine this. A political movement based on a doctrine of acceptance, the kind described in our previous article, gains power in Ireland. Not in …
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The Acceptance
There is a particular kind of silence that settles over a conversation when everyone in the room knows the same thing and nobody is willing …
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The Blockade That Blinked
On Sunday, a Russian oil tanker called the Anatoly Kolodkin was sailing at 12 knots off the eastern tip of Cuba, carrying 730,000 barrels of …
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The Blue Line in the Sand
On Sunday morning, an Indonesian peacekeeper was killed by a projectile that struck a United Nations position near the village of Adchit Al Qusayr, in …
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The Ladder They Pulled Up
Ireland's government wants more professional landlords. Ireland's young people can't find jobs. These are not two stories. They are one policy, viewed from opposite ends …
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The Machine That Cannot Say No
The dominant AI safety conversation, the one consuming billions in research funding and generating thousands of column inches, is about containment. How do we keep …
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Open for Business
Ireland's housing crisis is not a failure of policy. It is the result of policy — decades of decisions made by identifiable people, in identifiable …
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The Country That Can't Feed Itself
Ireland is one of the world's largest food exporters per capita. It also imports 83% of its fruit and vegetables, 95% of its apples, two-thirds …
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