Beyond the Imperial Monoculture
Why Humanity Needs More Than One Story
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Musings on China and the West
China, the West, strategic rivalry, civilisational contrast, and changing global influence.
Eighty Years Since the Quiet
I was born in 1945, into a world that had just finished screaming and had gone, for a while, quiet.
Believing the Right Villain
Propaganda in a Comforting Voice
The Knowledge That Disqualifies
On the fate of those who cannot let go
The Architecture of Certainty
At the Strait of Hormuz this week, commercial vessels are still queuing for passage — more than a dozen a day, according to shipping trackers — even as strikes resume somewhere over Iran and a ceasefire that was...
The Forest Does Not Fall At Once
The woman who grills chicken over charcoal at the mouth of my soi has raised her prices twice since the second week of July.
A Cartography of Ghosts
Navigating the Regimes of Industrial Economism
When Leadership Confronts Reality
The Collapse of Consent
Sophisticated State Failure
How the West learned to Decay Without Falling
Most Hated Nation
Nation-state legitimacy and the exhaustion of political imagination
How We Learn to Love the Fire
Acceptance of War in a Fracturing World
The Folly That Is AUKUS
An inquiry the state would not hold
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