Thought Articles
AI + ASKESIS + THE MONASTIC LIFE (but sex included)
AI + ASKESIS + THE MONASTIC LIFE (but sex included) The great misunderstanding about the AI abundance economy is that…
THE ICE SILK ROAD: CHINA’S PRIORITY NOW GREENLAND HAS FALLEN
THE ICE SILK ROAD: CHINA’S PRIORITY NOW GREENLAND HAS FALLEN On 9 September 2026, the Dubai Tower arrived at Teesport…
Middle Powers Rising: Carney, the Highest IQ (Western) Politician?
Middle Powers Rising: Carney, the Highest IQ (Western) Politician? There are moments in geopolitics when an apparently eccentric proposal reveals…
Billie Jean x Kahneman x MSM
Billie Jean x Kahneman x MSM Billie Jean: You Hear What They Wanted You to Hear There is a problem…
Voluntary Dystopia: From HAL to the Ship of Theseus
Voluntary Dystopia: From HAL to the Ship of Theseus In 1968, Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke gave us one…
The Pentagon Took the Red Pill. Then Spat It Out.
The Pentagon Took the Red Pill. Then Spat It Out. There is a wonderfully unsettling moment in The Matrix when…
The American New Dollar: How America Could Pay Every Dollar…
The American New Dollar: How America Could Pay Every Dollar of Its Debt — and Still Default The United States…
Apollo in Plato’s Cave
Apollo in Plato’s Cave There is an obvious question to ask about artificial intelligence and art, which is probably why…
Ann Coulter: The Foundation Trump Built His Presidency On
Ann Coulter: The Foundation Trump Built His Presidency On When Donald Trump descended the golden escalator at Trump Tower on…
European Agriculture as a Portfolio-Management Problem: Denmark Is the Poster…
European Agriculture as a Portfolio-Management Problem: Denmark Is the Poster Child There is something superficially compelling about Denmark’s great agricultural…
Shakespeare NOT Molière… in Algeria! Afrique says NO not NON
Shakespeare NOT Molière… in Algeria! Afrique says NO not NON Somewhere in Algeria this autumn, an eight-year-old child will walk…
The Fog Machine: The Generals of Wiesbaden
The Fog Machine: The Generals of Wiesbaden There comes a point in every long war at which the fog of…
From Bess to the New “Pirates”
From Bess to the New “Pirates” Here We may now be entering an era in which states themselves rediscover why piracy…
SMOKE ON THE WATER: EUROPE AT 40°C
SMOKE ON THE WATER: EUROPE AT 40°C Europe is getting hotter. That statement has become so familiar that it risks…
BMI for Robots: It’s the Battery, Stupid.
BMI for Robots: It’s the Battery, Stupid. For more than a century, oil sat at the centre of geopolitics because…
A Glimmer of the Future: The Open-Source Cold War and…
A Glimmer of the Future: The Open-Source Cold War and What If China Wins AI by Giving It Away? For…
The Children of a DeepSeek–Unitree Love Affair
The Children of a DeepSeek–Unitree Love Affair If DeepSeek provides the brain and Unitree provides the body, we should probably…
U.S. Capitalism….with Chinese Characteristics — Made in America
U.S. Capitalism….with Chinese Characteristics — Made in America For most of the modern era, one of the easiest ways to…
Why China’s Favourite Colour Is…..Ultra Violet!
Why China’s Favourite Colour Is…..Ultra Violet! China has just crossed a threshold in the semiconductor war which matters far beyond…
The Mecca Defence Pact…a new NATO?
The Mecca Defence Pact…a new NATO? Yesterday, in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan signed an agreement which deserves considerably…