Back in March, I wrote a post at Lawyers, Guns and Money called “Remember ‘Great Power Competition?’ Lol.” As the “Grand Strategy” of Trump 2.0 comes into focus, I thought it would be a good idea to revisit and update it. In brief, the normie national-security advisors who dominated the first Trump administration needed a way to make Trump’s […]| The Duck of Minerva
Satoshi Kon’s Paranoia Agent is still the best send up to postmodern correlationism ever made. Sure, everyone hates postmodernism now. But that wasn’t always the case. From the 80s until just…| The Trickster's Guide to Geopolitics
As the apeirokinetic pantoustasis rolls ever onward, it is increasingly clear that this must be the darkest timeline.* It is at any rate the stupidest. Reason, analysis and theory have little purch…| Sphinx
Not rethinking realism, as in rethinking philosophy’s single, objective reality, hard as rocks and nails. No, I mean rethinking realism in the sense of questioning the elevation of literary realism over the many other forms of fiction. Realism has long been the go-to form in literature for telling a story a certain way. An entire […]| Jim Nelson
Oil paintings of collages of tape, acetate, and colored paper by Dutch artist Kees Goudzwaard. More on Goudzwaard and his method here.  …| Word Object
