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Quit Your Job

You can’t affect the world in the most important ways from within established patterns of action. You need to spend some time in the wilderness.

Posted on January 6, 2022January 10, 2022 Wolf Tivy

America’s Late Ruling Class

In the nineteenth century, America’s most powerful families became a national ruling class. Then came their rapid collapse.

Posted on December 29, 2021 Charles Coulombe

The Secret Is Crime

Rulers and crime lords are often made of the same stuff. For those who can handle it, the underworld has valuable lessons to teach about power.

Posted on December 22, 2021January 3, 2022 Avetis Muradyan

The Lost Virtue of Skull and Bones

Yale’s legendary secret society used to train powerful elites. But it could only reflect elite culture, not define it.

Posted on December 16, 2021January 7, 2022 Jasper Boers

The Long Fall of Beirut

Lebanon’s state is collapsing under the weight of its own dysfunction. Visiting its capital, I found a gallery of street art, urban wreckage, and political nihilism.

Posted on December 9, 2021December 9, 2021 Fin dePencier

Liberal Education Is Applied History

Our approach to education is reproducing society’s worst neuroses. The alternative isn’t institutional reform, but a different consciousness.

Posted on November 27, 2021 Ash Milton and Stephen Pimentel

The Second Death of Jiao Yulu

The party cadre Jiao Yulu embodied a Chinese political culture with room for experiments and risk-taking. Xi’s turn to digital technocracy may threaten its survival.

Posted on November 18, 2021December 9, 2021 Dylan Levi King

America’s Next Aristocracy

America’s elite universities have an aristocratic mission. The Confucian tradition has lessons for how to achieve it.

Posted on October 29, 2021October 29, 2021 Mathis Bitton

Hezbollah’s Regime Without a State

While in Lebanon to report on a disintegrating state, I found Hezbollah building a different kind of regime.

Posted on October 21, 2021November 19, 2021 Fin dePencier

The Triumph and Terror of Wang Huning

One man’s thought has become pivotal in China’s new political and cultural crackdowns. That man is not Xi Jinping.

Posted on October 11, 2021October 14, 2021 N. S. Lyons

A World Without Sci-Hub

Sci-Hub has become foundational for scientific research. What if we didn’t need it at all?

Posted on September 24, 2021September 24, 2021 Jason Parry

Chinese Intellectual Ecology

Xi wants to guide China’s thinkers with a clear party line. But that line is just one rallying point in a complex intellectual ecology.

Posted on September 21, 2021September 21, 2021 David Ownby

Japan’s New Aoyama Clan

While in Tokyo for the Summer Olympics, I instead saw the spectacle of Japan’s aspiring new elites.

Posted on September 6, 2021September 6, 2021 Dylan Levi King

The School That Built Asia

The Japanese Empire founded Kenkoku University to create new pan-Asian elites. Despite their own defeat, they succeeded.

Posted on August 20, 2021March 22, 2022 Ernest Leung

Under the Rule of Amida Buddha

In the midst of Japan’s chaotic Sengoku era, a radical Buddhist sect carved out a new regime. Then came the real test.

Posted on August 9, 2021 Ethan Edwards

The Rebirth of Industrial Mastery

Fundamental change only comes from outside established paradigms. Without room for new founders, progress is impossible.

Posted on July 29, 2021July 29, 2021 Ash Milton

De Gaulle’s State of Tomorrow

In postwar France, Charles de Gaulle unified executive power with a technocratic state and a national story. His model still endures around the world.

Posted on July 23, 2021July 23, 2021 Mathis Bitton

The Myth of Panic

The threat of mass panic lurks behind our mechanisms of political control. What if we were allowed to fear?

Posted on July 15, 2021July 23, 2021 Tanner Greer

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