If Moscow previously relied on treaties and ‘playing normal’, now it relies on unpredictability, interconnected fronts, and a balance of threats. Another round of negotiations between Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff and the Russian leadership? A meeting between Witkoff and President Putin is now imminent. At the same…
Modern farming is destroying small communities as we move more and more toward the “go big or go home” model—thousands of acres of the same monocrop, managed by one or two people on a tractor spraying chemicals. What used to be 20 or 30 small farms—each with a household…
Why Old-World Values Are the Ultimate Modern Rebellion. The infrastructure is now visible to those willing to see it. The systematic replacement of natural systems with artificial ones has reached into every domain—money, food, health, education, information. What began as isolated changes has revealed itself as a…
Sergey Lavrov stands before the glacial immensity of Alaska, wearing a white sweater stitched with the letters CCCP, a relic-sigil of a vanished order that once held half the planet in its grasp. The tundra wind cuts around him as if circling an imperial monument; the cold is…
We’re frogs in a pot that’s being heated so gradually that we no longer notice the sewage is extinguishing the utility of the Web. Let’s take “Show me the incentives, and I’ll show you the outcome” and direct it on the Internet, the digital realm that is…
Imagine telling India—or any sovereign nation—which partners they may trade with. The audacity is staggering, yet that’s precisely what’s unfolding. A Reckless Trade War with a Partner The latest salvo comes from President Donald Trump, who in early August 2025 imposed sweeping tariffs—raising duties on Indian goods…
Over five years since the dark nightmare of lockdowns and mandates began, we are still asking the most fundamental questions. How did all of this happen? How do we prevent it from happening again? Of course, we’ve gained much clarity in the intervening years. For example,…
“It’s funny they call [intel] a ‘community.’ That sounds so benign and beneficial. Everybody likes communities.” —Doug Casey And so, now, in Alaska, Mr. Trump sits down with Vlad Putin to attempt a settling of Ukraine’s hash. This war has been a three-year bloody grind, millions killed,…
One of the most important lessons I learned from reading Bertrand de Jouvenel’s On Power is that revolutions happen against weak regimes, not against strong ones. This is not the romanticized version of history that we frequently get from the media or the schools. George III, Louis XVI,…
Netflix’s documentary on the OceanGate submarine disaster offers a soul-searching meditation on ambition and greed. Titan: The OceanGate Disaster Directed by Mark Monroe ◆ Produced by Mark Monroe, Lily Garrison, and Jon Bardin ◆ Distributed by Netflix “Invulnerable” was how the late OceanGate…
