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The West Is a Superior Civilization (Too Bad if That Offends You)
We do not defend one civilization over another out of irrational passion. The West is not a football jersey we wear to compensate for our insecurities or our lack of personal ident...
How the New Left won the battle of ideas for 21st-century China
We are all used to Western assessments of Deng Xiaoping. You may even be convinced by them, as I was for a long time. Ezra Vogel, for example, wrote in Deng Xiaoping and the Transf...
The Twilight of the Gods
Why the world can no longer be conqueredThe end of classical conquestFor millennia, power was measured in territory. Empires such as Rome, Persia, or the European colonial powers b...
How to lose a war in three easy steps
Trump has managed to pull off an improbable defeat despite having started with an overwhelming advantage
How America Won Every Battle In Iran And Still Lost The War
Uncover the hidden reasons victory on the battlefield didn’t translate into lasting success.Continue reading on Geopolitics & Beyond »
How To Win a Trade War? Lose Less Than Your Opponents.
The only winning move is not to play. But if you must, a new book offers some suggestions.
Satyajit Das: Book Essay: In Western Eyes – A History of the idea of the West
A treatise on what the idea of the West falls short on synthesis but still provides good grist for discussion.
How Winning Became the Shared Ethos of the US Oligarchy
Winning seems to be all that matters to Donald Trump, because it is the only thing left to legitimize America's oligarchic rule.
New conservatism, culture wars and the Western Tradition
The Golden Thread by Allen C. Guelzo and James Hankins is an ambitious two-volume history of the West, from Ancient Greece to today. Mounting a conservative defence of the Western...
The battle between heartland and ‘rimland’
Hal Brands and Michael Beckley write in Foreign Affairs about important geopolitical shifts. At first glance, today’s strategic map seems familiar. A bloc of land-based powers, clu...
The U.S. Won the War With Iran
It wasn’t a knockout blow, but Washington prevailed on points.
Pope Just Gave U.S., Allies the Strategic Edge Over Beijing
In May 1891, Pope Leo XIII published an encyclical - "Rerum Novarum" - that gave the industrial-age West a moral vocabulary that socialist forces would never match. Exactly 135 yea...
Why Iran has already won the war
There is a moment in every great geopolitical confrontation when the outcome becomes structurally inevitable — long before anyone is willing to announce it. Rome understood this wh...
How the West Misreads Modi’s Success
India may be less liberal now, but it remains democratic.
The War Was Won Before It Was Over
On the distance between what was promised and what was delivered and why that distance is exactly the thing we’re not supposed to measure.Continue reading on Medium »
Why the U.S. Could Beat China
Chinamaxxing has Americans looking at China in a new light. But Dan Wang argues that despite China’s futuristic image, the United States still has key advantages.
America Was Stronger Than Iran. So Why Did It Negotiate?
Military superiority can win battles. Political outcomes are often determined by leverage, endurance, and the management of risk.Continue reading on The Geopolitical Economist »
The Kevin Costner Dialogue From a 1990 Western Epic That Perfectly Captured Freedom
It's hard to believe that after like fifty years of dominance, the western was dead by 1990, but it was. Hollywood had totally moved on from the Americana, and no one was sure it w...
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