“Predictions sound like facts, but they are not.” That line, repeated by Carissa Véliz, an AI researcher at Oxford, in her new work Prophecy: Prediction, Power, […]
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The Morality of Power: War, Virtue, and the Pursuit of Harmony in Asian Statecraft
While the Western tradition often invoked the idea of a “just war” (bellum iustum) to legitimize expansion or ideological ambition, Asian thought framed military force […]
The Collapse of Nationalist China: Corruption, Military Defeat, and the Limits of American Power
Chongqing became China’s wartime capital during World War II. At the time, the Western Allies looked at China and saw a superpower in the making. […]
Vietnam’s Warrior Queen: Why This General is Still Honored Today
I’m standing at the foot of the massive statue of Lê Chân in the heart of Haiphong, Vietnam’s legendary port city. Most people know Haiphong today as […]
The Alternative Rises Because the Establishment Failed
Germany’s political class spent years pretending that the costs of mass migration were imaginary, or at least too impolite to mention. That lie has finally […]
What We Learned from the Xi Visit to Pyongyang
The visit by Xi Jinping to Pyongyang inside DPRK did not behave like a turning point and was not framed internally as one. There was […]
The Manufactured Exodus: How Zionism Uprooted the Arab World’s Jews
When Israel is described as a European colonial project, the Zionist standard rebuttal is demographic: “Nearly half of Israeli Jews are Mizrahi (from the Middle […]
Yachting and the Entertainment Industry Exposed
Yachting (often misspelled as “yaching”) is one of the entertainment industry’s most enduring open secrets. The term describes the practice in which attractive young women […]
Iran’s True Face — Educated Ayatollahs, Protected Synagogues, and Women’s Freedom: Why Our Image of the Islamic Republic Is a Deception
Jewish Life and Minority Rights in Modern Iran When I was on a business trip to the Islamic Republic of Iran decades ago, I posed […]
Vietnam’s Bamboo Signals: Balancing 5G Ambition with Geopolitical Reality
Vietnam is rapidly emerging as a global 5G powerhouse, leveraging a pragmatic strategy known as “bamboo diplomacy” to modernize its infrastructure while managing intense geopolitical […]