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Benjamin H. Bratton on Terraforming the World Order

Sociologist and design theorist Benjamin H Bratton discusses how our ongoing technologically-driven terraforming will remake the world order, and how technology reveals and creates human destiny as much as enabling it.

Posted on January 11, 2021January 11, 2021 Marko Bauer

American Reform Is the Only Answer to China

The biggest threat to America’s world order is not China, but the country’s own deepening dysfunction. Its grand strategy must go beyond containment and transform the basis of U.S. power.

Posted on December 30, 2020January 4, 2021 Wolf Tivy and Stephen Pimentel

Small Business’s Class War Could Finish Off American Dynamism

As neoliberal reforms broke the back of American labor, they also created a growing class of small business owners. Now, that class has come back to haunt both big business and the establishment which created them.

Posted on December 21, 2020December 21, 2020 Nicolas Villarreal

China’s Real Threat Is to America’s Ruling Ideology

America’s China hawks paint the country as an economic, geopolitical, and military danger. In reality, China is less a threat to America itself than it is to the legitimacy of U.S. ruling ideology.

Posted on December 14, 2020January 4, 2021 Richard Hanania

Kevin Kelly on Why Technology Has a Will

Wired magazine founder and technologist Kevin Kelly discusses why technology has agency, why he believes in God but not destiny, and how to be an anti-utopian optimist.

Posted on December 10, 2020December 11, 2020 Patrick McGraw

Why the US Dollar Could Outlast the American Empire

Observers regularly predict the U.S. dollar’s collapse as the global reserve currency. In reality, history shows that currency dominance is one of the most enduring forms of hegemony.

Posted on December 5, 2020December 9, 2020 Byrne Hobart

Confronting Modernity Means Overcoming Humanism

Humanism believed that we could conquer the world. In reality, modernity has escaped our control. Only a posthumanist framework can see us through.

Posted on November 23, 2020November 24, 2020 Charlie Smith

New Optimism Ignores Our Potential for Catastrophe

New Optimists such as Steven Pinker emphasize the triumphs of modern civilization. But modernity has also created a grim left tail of potential catastrophes. We have only averted them by luck.

Posted on November 13, 2020November 13, 2020 Adam Salisbury
Minuteman Takeoff

Nuclear Powers Still Rule The World

The United States is waking up to our new geopolitical normal—a world of multipolar competition as American power stagnates and others powers rise. We need to discard encrusted foreign policy illusions and go back to basics.

Posted on November 2, 2020November 2, 2020 Matt Ellison

America Needs a National Service Program

National service is a well-established way for Western democracies to build civic unity. A joint military and diplomatic initiative can spark America’s institutional renewal.

Posted on October 28, 2020October 27, 2020 James Haynes

The Belt and Road Strategy Has Backfired on Xi

Numerous Chinese projects adopted the Belt and Road brand. But its grand strategy propaganda has created new enemies and makes Xi responsible for every failed venture.

Posted on October 24, 2020October 25, 2020 Tanner Greer

The Centralized Internet Is Inevitable

Digital centralization is increasing, and social media networks are now engaging in direct censorship. This is not a violation of the internet’s original spirit, but a necessary feature of its logic.

Posted on October 19, 2020 Samo Burja

The Social Capital Stall Behind America’s Gerontocracy

American social capital is concentrated at the top. The result is gerontocracy and a generational succession failure.

Posted on October 10, 2020 Byrne Hobart

Our Humanity Depends on the Things We Don’t Sell

The market society frames transaction as liberation, even renting and selling women’s bodies. But the future lies with those who cultivate non-transactional interdependence.

Posted on October 3, 2020October 3, 2020 Mary Harrington

How Capitalist Giants Use Socialist Cybernetic Planning

Socialist Chile’s Project Cybersyn prefigured the cybernetic economic planning now used by capitalist giants like Amazon and Walmart. But the future of cybernetic planning can either empower workers or enslave them.

Posted on September 23, 2020September 23, 2020 Nicolas Villarreal

The End of Lukashenko or the End of Belarus?

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has failed to build state institutions to guarantee his country’s sovereignty. Now, amid a moment of weakness, Moscow is stepping in.

Posted on September 14, 2020September 14, 2020 Luka Jukic

America’s New Post-Western Foreign Policy

America has insisted that its allies converge on liberal democratic values. This is increasingly untenable in a world of multipolar competition and faltering confidence in liberalism.

Posted on September 4, 2020September 4, 2020 Jeremy Stern

India’s TikTok Ban Is a Step Toward Digital Sovereignty

India’s recent TikTok ban is just one part of its digital sovereignty plan. Like the U.S. and China, it is converging on a strategy that uses markets to create national champions.

Posted on August 22, 2020August 25, 2020 Byrne Hobart

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