And the third crisis, through which we’re living? That, Professor Rex argued, involves “. . . a question that would once have been expressed as ‘What is man?’ The fact that this wording is now itself seen as problematic is a symptom of the very condition it seeks to diagnose. What is it, in other words, to be human?” That, Rex rightly contends, is

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Ten years ago, I think a lot of us felt like we’d come to the end of history. I grew in the 1900s and 2000s, and obviously, we had the war on terror and things like that, but there was the general sense that we lived in a safe world that was trending toward democracy, freedom, peace, and prosperity for everyone. There was a more globalist mindset.

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The world is being forcibly reconfigured by at least three concurrent revolutions: a geopolitical revolution driven by the rise of China; an ideological revolution consuming the Western world; and a technological revolution exacerbating both of the former.Geopolitically, a decent understanding of what is happening, if not of its full extent, has... See more