“This is not a dark age. It is a time worthy of living.”

“More than two millennia after the Axial Age, we may be entering another globally synchronized rethink. With no shared ideology and dwindling trust in inherited institutions, humanity is being forced back to first principles. What is justice? What deserves to endure? Questions of AI ethics, political legitimacy and governance are no longer... See more

What is underway today, much like the transition from the Spring and Autumn period to the Warring States period, is about far more than a change in political climate. As Huang writes, that transition in China marked one of the most profound systemic shifts in its history, involving “a fundamental transformation that reshaped modes of production,... See more

“Trumpism does not merely reject global liberalism; it reimagines the architecture of American power. Its core instinct is not isolationist or nihilistic, but fundamentally opposed to established diplomatic norms and rituals, a deliberate departure from the old ways of seeking consensus. In this worldview, legitimacy comes not from international... See more

“What we are entering may not be a collapse, but a modeling epoch: a new Warring States world, chaotic and cruel, but also luminous. For those who think in systems and build in code, this is not the end of history. It is its recommencement.