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Playing with Politics

Everything is permitted but nothing is possible.

6 days ago 10 votes
The Man Who Nearly Woke Up.

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a week ago 12 votes
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Another of my essays in French.

2 weeks ago 10 votes
A Swan-song For Europe

It didn't have to be this way.

2 weeks ago 21 votes
All About Aid.

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3 weeks ago 14 votes

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The Eight Tribes of Trump and China

LAST OCTOBER I published a short breakdown of four geopolitical ‘schools’ that might shape China strategy under Trump. That piece was a pre-election preview of a much larger report I was writing for the Foreign Policy Research Institute. I published the preview as security: Trump might not win. If so I had better publish something before election day while interest in Trumpworld was guaranteed. Trump won. Interest in GOP debates did not abate. I continued to work on the report. As of this week the full thing is out. You can read it, in all its twenty-page glory, over at the FPRI website. What follows are some of its key points:

18 hours ago 3 votes
The Assassination of Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr

Civil rights icon Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr was shot and killed on April 4, 1968, on a motel balcony in Memphis. One of the earliest successes of the civil rights movement was a boycott in Montgomery, Alabama.  In 1955, after Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat to … Continue reading The Assassination of Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr →

3 hours ago 2 votes
The 7 Sages of Ancient Greece

From Dwarfs to Wise Men... What's Up With the Number 7?

22 hours ago 2 votes
“To Be Is to Be Perceived”: The Concept of Berkeley’s Idealism

Ever thought about whether the world is there only because you think it is? That’s what George Berkeley meant with his philosophy of idealism. The 18th-century philosopher came up with a pretty wild idea: “To be is to be perceived.” According to him, we don’t find objects, and the world exists separately from our […]

21 hours ago 1 votes
Wool Aliens of the British Empire

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9 hours ago 1 votes