Essays
Long-form writing on power, innovation, history and the ideas that shape our world.
The Mirror and the Maze: America's Fatal Misread of China
Washington doesn’t understand China. Not now. Not ever. Not really.
The King's Gambit Betrayed: Chess and the Death of Strategic Imagination
Today, as the Western world stumbles through a fog of strategic confusion, it is no longer clear whether it even recognises the game it once reshaped.
The Narrative Industrial Complex: Manufacturing Belief in the Age of Strategic Illusion
How narratives shape our understanding of power, risk and reality.
"To understand the future, we must first understand the ideas that made the present possible."
EDO