Since high school I have wanted to go to Uzbekistan. Mongolia was the first priority and I did that mere weeks after graduating. Somehow, however, Uzbekistan kept getting delayed even after I fille…| The Trickster's Guide to Geopolitics
The first politician I ever hated and the first non-Presidential political figure I ever knew the name of where one and the same person. Joe Lieberman was that man, and he is now dead. No matter ho…| The Trickster's Guide to Geopolitics
I was originally going to write this post anyway before all the Gaza Strip stuff happened. I was simply waiting to get back from an international trip before doing so. That a new round of fighting …| The Trickster's Guide to Geopolitics
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I was mere days from writing up a piece titled ‘Make Asylums Great Again’ when the assassination of Charlie Kirk, or specifically the response to it by the media, had necessitated a sli…| The Trickster's Guide to Geopolitics
Since the run up to the 2016 primaries, when it was obvious that the neoconservative movement was beginning to gradually migrate (back) to the Democratic Party in preparation for what they saw as a…| The Trickster's Guide to Geopolitics
Ron DeSantis. Ron DeSanctimonious, Ron DeSanctus, Meatball Ron, and my personal favorite, Ron DeSpectrum. He was built up to be the The Man…but he was not the man. Unlike the many terminally …| The Trickster's Guide to Geopolitics
Outside of self-imposed social media bubbles, history is not progressive like technology. While the march of technology changes how societies evolve in ways that no two eras are ever really …| The Trickster's Guide to Geopolitics
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A guest post by Senator Titus Aenus Probusfistus I was at the vomitorium the other day with my esteemed colleagues of the Centralae Faction of the Senate, when the inevitable unfortunate reality of…| The Trickster's Guide to Geopolitics
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“Guten tag kameradens. Haff you met meine daughter, Rapunzel Bustilda-Honecker?” I just finished Katja Hoyer’s book “Beyond the Wall” recently. The book attracted an insane amount of cr…| The Trickster's Guide to Geopolitics
Mild spoilers for my future self-made adventure module. It has been a long time since my formerly semi-regular tabletop rpg reviews and analysis on this site. Serendipity struck recently with my de…| The Trickster's Guide to Geopolitics
I have a chapter in an edited book coming out this week about how structural reform works best in national and localized contexts, rather than internationalist or teleological contexts. Additionall…| The Trickster's Guide to Geopolitics
The one and only downside about leaving academia for first the policy and then the policy analysis community is that almost everything has to be framed as in the American interest. Now, since I wish to change my own country’s policies, this is hardly a bad thing on the whole. But boy does it ever … Continue reading If I were an Iranian Strategist…| The Trickster's Guide to Geopolitics
Tim Kreider, 2002. Some things never change. Despite the sometimes intense instability of coalition governments, I generally have a view that the more political parties there are in a system the be…| The Trickster's Guide to Geopolitics
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
Today is the 50th Anniversary of the Liberation of Saigon and the reunification of Vietnam after almost a century of colonial and great power meddling. It was the first full blown American military…| The Trickster's Guide to Geopolitics
In a poll that should surprise absolutely no one, most republicans support the right to protest- unless it is Israel. Claims from the party of Freedom Fries that they were now the defenders of free…| The Trickster's Guide to Geopolitics
One of the things that initially surprised me after I wrote Woke Imperium, was that so many more left wing people wanted to engage affirmatively with it than right wing people. A big part of it was…| The Trickster's Guide to Geopolitics
Look, I know there is a deluge of unthought pieces all jumping on the post-election fallout train. So out of respect for your time and mine I will keep this extremely short and to the point. There …| The Trickster's Guide to Geopolitics
I have seen a plethora of theories about how social media, the internet, and mass media in general is driving us insane by increasing the number of shut-ins and people who forgo real life social in…| The Trickster's Guide to Geopolitics
