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America’s New Post-Literate Epistemology

They came from the internet in their war-memes and none could stand against them.

Posted on April 17, 2021June 10, 2022 Michael Cuenco

China’s Exit to Year Zero

China’s talented message board theorists crafted an industrial vision now embraced by Xi. Will their successors tear it all down?

Posted on April 9, 2021July 16, 2021 Dylan Levi King

The End of Industrial Society

The Industrial Revolution stopped before it was ever completed. The aftermath is not a clean and developed world, but lost knowledge and civilizational decline.

Posted on March 24, 2021July 16, 2021 Samo Burja

Leo Szilard’s Failed Quest to Build a Ruling Class

Atomic physicist Leo Szilard thought that scientists could rule the world better. The insiders who pushed him aside demonstrate what it actually takes to run the show.

Posted on March 16, 2021July 16, 2021 Zachary Lerangis

A New Golden Age of Governance

Existential problems confront our society. Our response will be the foundation of a new golden age of governance.

Posted on March 10, 2021July 16, 2021 Wolf Tivy

Climate Change Is Inevitable

Our governments will fail to respond effectively to climate change. A new world order will arise through the coming period of climate chaos.

Posted on March 6, 2021July 16, 2021 Jesse Velay-Vitow

Yan Fu’s Lessons on the True Mission of Liberalism

The late Qing scholar Yan Fu saw liberalism as a grand project to create virtuous people and a dynamic society. His ideas failed in China, but could succeed in America.

Posted on February 16, 2021July 16, 2021 Blake Smith

Armenia Is an Orphaned Client State

A journey through Armenia reveals a country on Russian life support. With Azerbaijan and Turkey in ascendency, the country’s lack of allies is its most existential threat.

Posted on February 12, 2021July 16, 2021 Fin dePencier

New Industries Come From Crazy People

Industrial visionaries tend to have chaotic and disruptive personalities. Their goals don’t neatly fit the social ladder. But societies that make room for them reap immense rewards.

Posted on February 2, 2021 Ben Landau-Taylor

The Forgotten UN Intervention to Build Democracy in Cambodia

In the early 1990s, the UN intervened in Cambodia in a show of liberal democratic state-building. Its failures foreshadowed the hubris which would follow the liberal world order from Yugoslavia to Afghanistan.

Posted on January 20, 2021March 2, 2021 Tanner Greer

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 20, 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, 2020April 14, 2022 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

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