Sublime

jeremiad

During the 1930s, the path toward great-power war was marked by some easily recognizable signposts: strident nationalism, shrinking global trade, accelerated displacement of unwanted populations, the fragmentation of the world into regional economic and security blocks, and a heightening rivalry between the emboldened unfree blocks and the discoura

Human stupidity is one of the most important forces in history, yet we often tend to discount it.

And given the immense destructive power of our civilization, we just cannot afford more failed models, world wars, and bloody revolutions.

I am now quite certain that China is no longer an elective course for future generations; rather, it is core

When a history is contested – whether in the academic or political world – the narrative is often simultaneously altered or inflected.

The war from 1914 to 1945 was a war among the mightiest industrial powers of the world. And it was a war that had no fundamental purpose. The world had never been so prosperous for the very countries that ended up nearly destroying themselves and killing tens of millions of people. At the core, the two European bloodlettings show the madness of vio

Seriously. In part that’s because the economics of the twentieth century was overwhelmingly about how best to share existing “pies” of human well-being, rather than how